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Art and Objecthood - Essays and Reviews (Paperback, New edition)
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Art and Objecthood - Essays and Reviews (Paperback, New edition)
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Michael Fried's often controversial art criticism defines the
contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains
27 pieces, including the introduction to the catalogue for "Three
American Painters," the text of his book "Morris Louis," and "Art
and Objecthood." Originally published between 1962 and 1977, the
essays continue to generate debate today. These are uncompromising
writings, aware of their transformative power during a time of
intense controversy about the nature of modernism and the aims and
essence of advanced painting and sculpture. 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
theatre, 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 also wrote.
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