Art And Objecthood: Essays And Reviews
by Fried, Michael
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- VG (light edge-wear. rubbing to corners. spine creased, yet, fairly tighly bound)
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- 0226263193
- ISBN 13
- 9780226263199
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Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Softcover. VG (light edge-wear. rubbing to corners. spine creased, yet, fairly tighly bound). blue illustrated wraps w/ white & red printing. 333 pgs w/ bw illustrations. This volume contains twenty-seven pieces, including the influential introduction to the catalog for Three American Painters, the text of his book Morris Louis, and the renowned "Art and Objecthood." Originally published between 1962 and 1977, they continue to generate debate today. Ranging from brief reviews to extended essays, and including major critiques of Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella, and Anthony Caro, these writings establish a set of basic terms for understanding key issues in high modernism: the viability of Clement Greenberg's account of the infralogic of modernism, the status of figuration after Pollock, the centrality of the problem of shape, the nature of pictorial and sculptural abstraction, and the relationship between work and beholder. In a number of essays Fried contrasts the modernist enterprise with minimalist or literalist art, and, taking a position that remains provocative to this day, he argues that minimalism is essentially a genre of theater, hence artistically self-defeating. For this volume Fried has also provided an extensive introductory essay in which he discusses how he became an art critic, clarifies his intentions in his art criticism, and draws crucial distinctions between his art criticism and the art history he went on to write. The result is a book that is simply indispensable for anyone concerned with modernist painting and sculpture and the task of art criticism in our time.--WorldCat.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
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- Title
- Art And Objecthood: Essays And Reviews
- Author
- Fried, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG (light edge-wear. rubbing to corners. spine creased, yet, fairly tighly bound)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0226263193
- ISBN 13
- 9780226263199
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Biography / Autobiography, michael fried ; Fried, Michael ; ;
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