Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried

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Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried From his early career as an art critic during the sixties to his art historical writings of recent decades, Michael Fried has remained one of the most controversial and fascinating art writers of the late twentieth century. Refracting Vision brings together for the first time a range of scholarly responses to Fried's art criticism, art history, and poetry, illuminating his distinguished contributions and taking his work in exciting new directions. The present anthology will decisively raise the stakes and establish a new standard of seriousness in discussion of Fried's work. -- T.J.Clark Cover page Front page Contents Editors’ preface to the 2012 reprint Acknowledgments Introduction Jill Beaulieu, Mary Roberts and Toni Ross CHAPTER 1 Immanence and Outsideness: The Absorptive Aesthetics of Diderot’s Existential Reverie and Courbet’s Embodied Merger Jill Beaulieu CHAPTER 2 Writing of ‘Art and Objecthood”James Meyer CHAPTER 3 The Difference Manet Makes Stephen Melville CHAPTER 4 Before and After Pollock Keith Broadfoot CHAPTER 5 “The Man Who Knows Too Much”: On Michael Fried’s “Impressionism” Rex Butler CHAPTER 6 Paradoxes of Authorship and Reception in Michael Fried’s Art History Toni Ross CHAPTER 7 Difference and Deferral: The Sexual Economy of Courbet’s“Femininity” Mary Roberts CHAPTER 8 Eavesdropping/Eve’s Dropping K. Malcolm Richards CHAPTER 9 Mututal Facing: A Memoir of Friedom Steven Z. Levine CHAPTER 10 The Outcome of the Dance: Michael Fried and the Iconoclastic Prescription Isabelle Loring Wallace CHAPTER 11 Poetry and Art Theory in Michael Fried Hans-Jost Frey CHAPTER 12 An Interview with Michael FriedJill Beaulieu, Mary Roberts and Toni Ross CONTRIBUTORS