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Art and Objecthood Essays and Reviews

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ISBN-10: 0226263193

ISBN-13: 9780226263199

Edition: 1998

Authors: Michael Fried

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Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. 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. These are uncompromising, exciting, and impassioned 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…    
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Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/18/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.13" wide x 8.94" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Michael Fried is J.R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and director of the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University.

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
An Introduction to My Art Criticism
1966-77 Shape as Form: Frank Stella's Irregular Polygons (1966)
Morris Louis (1966-67)
Jules Olitski (1966-67)
Art and Objecthood (1967)
New Work by Anthony Caro (1967)
Ronald Davis: Surface and Illusion (1967)
Two Sculptures by Anthony Caro (1968)
Recent Work by Kenneth Noland (1969)
Caro's Abstractness (1970)
Problems of Polychromy: New Sculptures by Michael Bolus (1971)
Larry Poons's New Paintings (1972)
Anthony Caro's Table Sculptures, 1966-77 (1977)
1965 Three American Painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella (1965)
1962-64 Anthony Caro (1963)
Frank Stella (1963)
New York Letter: Oldenburg, Chamberlain (October 25, 1962)
New York Letter: Louis, Chamberlain and Stella, Indiana (November 25, 1962)
New York Letter: Warhol (December 25, 1962)
New York Letter: Johns (February 25, 1963)
New York Letter: Hofmann (April 25, 1963)
New York Letter: Noland, Thiebaud (May 25, 1963)
New York Letter: Hofmann, Davis (December 5, 1963)
New York Letter: Kelly, Poons (December-January 1963-64)
New York Letter: Judd (February 15, 1964)
New York Letter: De Kooning Drawings (April 25, 1964)
New York Letter: Olitski, Jenkins, Thiebaud, Twombly (May 1964)
New York Letter: Brach, Chamberlain, Irwin (Summer 1964)
Writings by Michael Fried, 1959-77
Exclusive of Poetry
Index of Names in "An Introduction to My Art Criticism"