Another light : Jacques-Louis David to Thomas Demand / Michael Fried
Publisher | New Haven : Yale University Press |
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Year | c2014 |
Authors | *Fried, Michael |
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Location | Volume | Call No. | Barcode No. | Status | Comments | ISBN | Printed | Restriction | Reserve |
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Library Main Building 3rd fl. (Foreign Books) |
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7000:959 | 121034583R |
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9780300208177 |
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Material Type | Books |
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Size | 330 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm |
Contents | David/Manet: The 'Anacreonic' Paintings David/Marat: The Self-Portrait of 1794 Gericault's Romanticism Orientalism in Painting: Caspar David Friedrich Caillebotte's Impressionism Roger Fry's Formalism Douglas Gordon's k.364 A Journey by Train Thomas Demand's A Pacific Sun |
Notes | Summary: "In this richly illustrated book, Michael Fried-one of the most esteemed and influential art critics and art historians working today-has gathered eight major essays written between 1993 and 2013, on topics ranging from Jacques-Louis David, Théodore Géricault, and Caspar David Friedrich through Gustave Caillebotte and Roger Fry to recent films by Douglas Gordon and Thomas Demand. Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, too, are distinct presences along with, in the background, the great art critic Denis Diderot and, in the case of Friedrich, the philosopher Immanuel Kant. As always in Fried's writing, the emphasis falls equally on observation and argument: never have these artists (and one critic, Fry) been subjected to so searching a gaze, and never has the meaning of their respective enterprises been laid bare with comparable clarity and force. Another hallmark of Fried's work is its extraordinary originality, and that too is fully in evidence throughout this remarkable book, which will add to his rep Includes bibliographical references and index |
Uniform title | Essays |
Subjects | LCSH:Art, Modern FREE:ART / Criticism & Theory. bisacsh FREE:ART / History / Romanticism. bisacsh FREE:LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. bisacsh FREE:David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825 FREE:Demand, Thomas, 1964- |
Classification | LCC:N6350 DC23:709.03 |
Language | English |
ID | 1001067813 |
ISBN | 9780300208177 |
NCID | BB17353902 |
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