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Book SynopsisThis book brings together philosophers, literary theorists, and art historians to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. Fried’s analyses of absorption and theatricality throw new light on problems in aesthetics, as well as questions surrounding authenticity, scepticism, modernity, and politics.
Trade Review"This exemplary collection brings together philosophers, art historians, and literary scholars to shed light on the vast range of work by Michael Fried, and the relevance of Fried's work to philosophy . . . [It] opens an authentic, valuable dialogue between art and philosophy. Summing Up: Essential." – CHOICE Reviews
"This is a superb set of essays on the writing of Michael Fried . . . Every essay is lucid, scholarly, meticulously crafted, detailed and acute in a way worthy of Fried's virtuoso and philosophically subtle approach to the history of art." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Michael Fried and Philosophy
Mathew Abbott
1. Modernism and the Discovery of Finitude
Mathew Abbott
2. "When I raise my arm": Michael Fried’s Theory of Action
Walter Benn Michaels
3. Why Does Photography Matter as Art Now, as Never Before? On Fried and Intention
Robert Pippin
4. Schiller, Schopenhauer, Fried
David Wellbery
5. Deep Relationality and the Hinge-like Structure of History: Michael Fried’s Photographs
Stephen Mulhall
6. Becoming Medium
Stephen Melville
7. Formulism and the Appearance of Nature
Richard Moran
8. Michael Fried, Theatricality, and the Threat of Skepticism
Paul J. Gudel
9. Michael Fried’s Intentionality
Rex Butler
10. On the (So-Called) Problem of Detail: Michael Fried, Roland Barthes, and Roger Scruton on Photography and Intentionality
Diarmuid Costello
11. The Aesthetics of Absorbtion
Magdalena Ostas
12. Grace and Equality, Fried and Rancière (and Kant)
Knox Peden
13. Diderot’s Conception of Aesthetic Subjectivity and the Possibility of Art
Andrew Kern
14. The Promise of the Present: Michael Fried’s Poetry Now
Jennifer Ashton
15. Constantin Constantius Goes to the Theater
Michael Fried
