num_pages: 268
description: 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
language: English
title: Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
publisher: University of Chicago Press