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Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot

Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot

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Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot

by Fried, Michael

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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980. xvii, 249 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge soiled. "With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood." - Publisher. CONTENTS: 1. The Primacy of Absorption; 2. Toward a Supreme Fiction; 3. Painting and Beholder; Appendix A. Grimm on Unity, Instantaneousness and Related Topics; Appendix B. Two Related Texts: The Lettre sur les spectacles and Die Wahlverwandtschaften; Appendix C. David's Homer Drawings of 1794; Notes; Index.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

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Title
Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
Author
Fried, Michael
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Good
Edition
1st
ISBN 10
0520043391
ISBN 13
9780520043398
Publisher
University of California Press
Place of Publication
Berkeley, CA
Date Published
1980
Size
4to
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European / 6. Neo-Classical & Romantic; European / French; European / 5. Baroque & Rococo;

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