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

• 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 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.

Links

• Faculty page
• Fried at Wikipedia