Michael Fried: Quick Facts


Facts

Born 1939 (age 87) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot” • “Art and Objecthood” • “Minimal Art” • “Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane” • “Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before”
Subjects Of Study Minimalism • art history

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Vladimir Nabokov
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Maggie Nelson
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James Russell Lowell
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Robert Penn Warren
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John Jay Chapman
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Mark Van Doren
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Ana Castillo
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Sarah Helen Whitman
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Allen Tate
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Howard Nemerov
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Sidney Lanier
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