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With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood. "A reinterpretation supported by immense learning and by a series of brilliantly perceptive readings of paintings and criticism alike. . . . An exhilarating book."-- John Barrell, "London Review of Books"Fried, Michael is the author of 'Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot', published 1980 under ISBN 9780520043398 and ISBN 0520043391.
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