{"title":"Michael Fried","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Fried’s works offer incisive explorations of visual art, illuminating the intersections between perception, experience, and artistic intention. His writing engages deeply with modern and contemporary art, bringing a critical eye to both historic and avant-garde movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analysis that challenges conventional views, blending philosophical insight with a keen understanding of cultural contexts. 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Captivated by the Salons in Paris, Baudelaire took to writing to express his theories on modern art and art philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Salon of 1846\u003c\/em\u003e expands upon the tenets of Romanticism as Baudelaire methodically takes his reader through paintings by Delacroix and Ingres, illuminating his belief that the pursuit of the ideal must be paramount in artistic expression. Here we also see Baudelaire caught in a fundamental struggle with the urban commodity of capitalism developing in Paris at that time. Baudelaire's text proves to be a useful lens for understanding art criticism in mid-nineteenth-century France, as well as the changing opinions regarding the essential nature of Romanticism and the artist as creative genius.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed art historian and art critic Michael Fried's introduction offers a new reading of Baudelaire's seminal text and highlights the importance of his writing and its relevance to today's audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455804424428,"sku":"9781644230534","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/51WPNfIGyFL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774799679"},{"product_id":"art-and-objecthood-by-michael-fried-9780226263199","title":"Art and Objecthood","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch 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 catalogue for \u003ci\u003eThree American Painters\u003c\/i\u003e, the text of his book \u003ci\u003eMorris Louis\u003c\/i\u003e, and the renowned \u003ci\u003eArt and Objecthood\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRanging 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460222009580,"sku":"9780226263199","price":83.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226263199-art-and-objecthood.jpg?v=1774945837"},{"product_id":"painting-with-demons-by-michael-fried-9781789143195","title":"Painting with Demons","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Fried casts his acute gaze on the extraordinary Renaissance painter Gerolamo Savoldo.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe achievements of Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo were, even during a period of unprecedented artistry, out of the ordinary. 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