Michael Fried

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Michael Fried (* 1939 in New York ) is an American art critic and professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Life

Fried studied at Princeton and Harvard Universities and went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1975 , where he became a JR Herbert Boone Professor . He is considered to be one of the renowned art critics in the tradition of Clement Greenberg . As he rejected Pop Art , Fried attacked minimalism . He published his reviews in Art International and Artforum . He curated the exhibition Three American Painters: Kenneth Noland , Jules Olitski , Frank Stella at the Fogg Art Museum (April 21 to May 30, 1965). In recent years, he has also focused his art historical interest on photography. The last work published is a monograph on Caravaggio .

Fried has also released a volume - To the Center of the Earth - with his own lyrics. In 1985 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 2003 he has been an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

Fonts

  • Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot . Chicago University Press, Chicago 1980
  • Courbet’s Realism . Chicago University Press, Chicago & London 1990
  • Manet’s Modernism . Chicago University Press, Chicago & London 1996
  • Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews . Chicago University Press, Chicago & LChicago London 1998
  • Menzel's realism. Art and embodiment in 19th century Berlin . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2007
  • Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before . Yale University Press, London & New Haven 2008
  • The life of the mind. Poem. in Aris Fioretos ed .: Babel. For Werner Hamacher . Urs Engeler , Basel 2009, ISBN 3938767553 , p. 177f. (in English)
  • The moment of Caravaggio . Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2010
  • Flaubert's “Gueuloir”: On “Madame Bovary” and “Salammbo” . Yale University Press, New Haven CT 2012

Literature about Michael Fried

  • Michael Rutschky: forgetfulness, theatrics. The art historian Michael Fried . In: Merkur No. 738, volume 34, issue 11, November 2011, pp. 1094–1100.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member History: Michael Fried. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 12, 2018 (with biography).
personal data
SURNAME Fried, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art critic and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH new York