Michael Fried

Michael M. Fried (born 1939) is a poet, art historian, art critic, and literary critic. an art critic and art historian. He is a professor of Humanities and Art History at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Works

Books

• Powers (poems), The Review, 1973.
• Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot, University of California Press, 1980.
• Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane, University of Chicago Press, 1987.
• Courbet's Realism, University of Chicago Press, 1990.
• To the Center of the Earth, Noonday Press, 1994.
• Manet's Modernism, or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s, University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews, University of Chicago Press, 1998.
• Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century, Yale University Press, 2002.
• Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, Yale University Press, 2008.
• The Moment of Caravaggio, Princeton University Press, 2010.
• Four Honest Outlaws: Sala, Ray, Marioni, Gordon, Yale University Press, 2011, 224 pp.
• French Suite: A Book of Essays, Reaktion Books, 2022, 356 pp.

Papers (selection)

• "Manet's Sources: Aspects of his Art, 1859-1865", Artforum 8:7, Mar 1969, pp 28-82.
• "Painting Memories: On the Containment of the Past in Baudelaire and Manet", Critical Inquiry 10:3, Mar 1984, pp 510-542.

Literature

• Jill Beaulieu, Mary Roberts, Toni Ross (eds.), Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried, Sydney: Power Publications, 2000, 407 pp.

Links

• Faculty page
• Fried at Wikipedia