Fried, Michael Absorption and Theatricality (0226262138)
With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood.
'A reinterpretation supported by immense learning and by a series of brilliantly perceptive readings of paintings and criticism alike. . . . An exhilarating book.'—John Barrell,
London Review of Books
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