Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300136846 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 410 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fried's best essays during the 1960s consist almost entirely of detailed At a very young age in 1963 Michael Fried became an art critic and until about 1970 he was (in my opinion, along with Clement Greenberg) America's most perceptive, intellectually powerful and consistently interesting writer about contemporary painting and sculpture. What made Fried's work special is his astonishing ability to describe what he sees in such a way that works of art are revealed as making comp. MR LAWRENCE MARTIN said Plenty of good ideas here. Whilst I agree with other reviewers that Fried's writing style isn't always clear, economical or particularly well structured at times, the author presents many bold and original ideas that, frankly, we don't see enough of (i.e. there's a lot of "highly polished" pieces that are well structured, etc., but do present ideas of equivalent depth). And let us remember that some of the views Fried presents inclu. "Five Stars" according to josé benjamim picado. nice
Future discussions of the new art photography will have no choice but to take a stand for or against Fried’s conclusions. . Fried further demonstrates that certain philosophically deep problemsassociated with notions of theatricality, literalness, and objecthood, and touching on the role of original intention in artistic production, first discussed in his controversial essay Art and Objecthood” (1967)have come to the fore once again in recent photography. This means that the photo
"Fried selects particular pictures to address and teases out the ways in which their meanings are created and transmitted. In these cases his writing is engaging, intriguing, and often delightfully paradoxical."—Andy Grundberg, American Scholar