Research Catalog

Title

Michael Fried and philosophy : modernism, intention, and theatricality / edited by Mathew Abbott.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

Abbott, Mathew

Description

vi, 267 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

This book brings together philosophers, literary theorists, and art historians to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried's art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried's analyses of absorption and theatricality, and the accounts of modernism he develops from them, can throw new light on problems in aesthetics, and questions of authenticity, scepticism, modernity, and politics. Featuring an essay by Fried and articles from world-leading scholars, this collection contributes to current debates in aesthetics, modernism studies, literary studies, art theory, and both analytic and continental philosophy

Series Statement

Routledge research in aesthetics ; 1

Uniform Title

Routledge research in aesthetics ; 1.

Subject

• Fried, Michael
• Aesthetics
• 20.02 philosophy and theory of the art sciences

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Michael Fried and philosophy / Mathew Abbott -- 1. Modernism and the discovery of finitude / Mathew Abbott -- 2. "When I raise my arm": Michael Fried's theory of action / Walter Benn Michaels -- 3. Why does photography matter as art now, as never before? on Fried and intention / Robert B. Pippin -- 4. Schiller, Schopenhauer, Fried / David E. Wellbery -- 5. Deep relationality and the hinge-like structure of history: Michael Fried's photographs / Stephen Mulhall -- 6. Becoming medium / Stephen Melville -- 7. Formalism and the appearance of nature / Richard Moran -- 8. Michael Fried, theatricality, and the threat of skepticism / Paul J. Gudel -- 9. Michael Fried's intentionality / Rex Butler -- 10. On the (so-called) problem of detail: Michael Fried, Roland Barthes, and Roger Scruton on photography and intentionality / Diarmuid Costello -- 11. The aesthetics of absorption / Magdalena Ostas -- 12. Grace and equality, Fried and Rancière (and Kant) / Knox Peden -- 13. Diderot's conception of aesthetic subjectivity and the possibility of art / Andrea Kern -- 14. The promise of the present: Michael Fried's poetry now / Jennifer Ashton -- 15. Constantin Constantius goes to the theater / Michael Fried.

ISBN

• 9781138679801
• 1138679801

LCCN

• 2017051250
• 40028038274

OCLC

• on1015253370
• 1015253370
• SCSB-8999899

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library