French Suite: A Book of Essays
French Suite: A Book of Essays by Michael Fried
English | October 24, 2022 | ISBN: 1789146046 | True EPUB | 356 pages | 28.5 MB
English | October 24, 2022 | ISBN: 1789146046 | True EPUB | 356 pages | 28.5 MB
From Manet to Gericault, Daubigny to Corot, an insightful, breathtakingly original exploration of French art and literature.
French Suite examines a range of important French painters and two writers, Baudelaire and Flaubert, from the brothers Le Nain in the mid-seventeenth century to Manet, Degas, and the Impressionists in the later nineteenth century. A principal theme of Michael Fried’s essays is a fundamental concern of his throughout his career: the relationship between painting and the beholder. Fried’s typically vivid and strongly argued essays offer many new readings and unexpected insights, examining both familiar and lesser-known French artistic and literary works.