Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
by Fried, Michael
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520037588
- ISBN 13
- 9780520037588
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About This Item
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980. Cloth, xvii, 249 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. "With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood." - Publisher. CONTENTS: 1. The Primacy of Absorption; 2. Toward a Supreme Fiction; 3. Painting and Beholder; Appendix A. Grimm on Unity, Instantaneousness and Related Topics; Appendix B. Two Related Texts: The Lettre sur les spectacles and Die Wahlverwandtschaften; Appendix C. David's Homer Drawings of 1794; Notes; Index.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
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- Title
- Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
- Author
- Fried, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0520037588
- ISBN 13
- 9780520037588
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, CA
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / 6. Neo-Classical & Romantic; European / French; European / 5. Baroque & Rococo;
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