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Michael Fried
Michael Fried is a poet, art historian, art critic, and literary critic. He has written extensively about abstract painting and sculpture since World War II, about French painting and art criticism from the mid-eighteenth century to the advent of Edouard Manet and his generation (and beyond).
He has long been engaged by questions of modernism, realism, theatricality, objecthood, self-portraiture, embodiedness, and the everyday. Also by the singular status of Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe. In the visual arts his works have included studies of Adolf Menzel (the great nineteenth-century German painter-draftsman), Caravaggio and the transformation of Italian painting ca. 1600.He has a particular interest in Jeff Wall, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Demand, and other contemporary "art" photographers.
He has also written extensively on: Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane Charles Baudelaire, Joseph Conrad, Gustave Caillebotte, and Roger Fry.
