Michael Fried is one the most established and reputable art critics and historians alive today. His approach to criticism is closely linked with that of his mentor, the late Clement Greenberg, who Fried first encountered while an undergraduate at Princeton. Much like Greenberg, Fried was suspicious of academics and critics who insisted on critiquing modern art within a historical and/or cultural context, instead of formally examining the work of art on its own terms. Another of Fried's notable contributions was his staunch opposition to what he observed as the lack of differentiation between the work of art itself and the experience of viewing it, a phenomenon he described as "theatricality."
Michael
Fried is one the most established and reputable art critics and
historians alive today. His approach to criticism is closely linked
with that of his mentor, the late Clement Greenberg, who Fried first
encountered while an undergraduate at Princeton. Much like Greenberg,
Fried was suspicious of academics and critics who insisted on critiquing
modern art within a historical and/or cultural context, instead of
formally examining the work of art on its own terms. Another of Fried's
notable contributions was his staunch opposition to what he observed as
the lack of differentiation between the work of art itself and the
experience of viewing it, a phenomenon he described as "theatricality."
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