Michael Fried and Philosophy
Subtitle: Absorption, Theatricality, and Modernism
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781138679801
Subjects: Art, philosophy; Art criticism
Description: This book brings together philosophers, literary theorists, and art historians to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried's art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried's analyses of absorption and theatricality, and the accounts of modernism he develops from them, can throw new light on problems in aesthetics, and questions of authenticity, scepticism, modernity, and politics. Featuring an essay by Fried and articles from world-leading scholars, this collection contributes to current debates in aesthetics, modernism studies, literary studies, art theory, and both analytic and continental philosophy