Presentamos ahora la traducción de Absorption and Theatricality con el título El lugar del espectador. Estética y orígenes de la pintura moderna, en lo que seguimos la pauta marcada por la edición francesa. A éste le seguirán los dos libros sobre Coubert y Manet, con lo que el lector en lengua castellana podrá disponer de las obras fundamentales de Fried.Calificado en numerosas ocasiones de formalista, Michael Fried analiza los cambios producidos en la pin...

Este libro forma parte de una trilogía, junto con "El lugar del espectador" y "El realismo de Courbet", que analiza cierta problemática en la evolución de la pintura francesa entre los comienzos de la reacción al Rococó, en la década de 1750, y el advenimiento del Impresionismo en 1870-80. Las décadas de 1860 y 1870 en Francia también fueron el momento y el lugar en que apareció la pintura moderna (los lienzos de Manet de la primera mitad de 1860-70 son esenciales) y, de hecho, me fijé ini...

To the Center of the Earth is Michael Fried's first collection of poems to appear in the United States. It includes selections from an earlier volume, Powers, as well as more recent work. For all their economy, Fried's "muscular, tense and immensely resonant" poems, to quote one critic, are among the most sensuously direct and arresting being written today.

La figura ha sido un aspecto central para la pintura. En muchos ensayos recientes he intentado mostrar el conflicto entre la figura como propiedad fundamental de los objetos y la figura como médium de la pintura. El éxito o fracaso de una pintura ha dependido de su capacidad para conservarse, quedar impresa o resultar convincente como figura. Lo que está en juego en este conflicto es si las pinturas o los objetos en cuestión se perciben como pinturas o como objetos, y qué es lo que determi...

Fried ofrece una interpretación original de la pintura de Courbet, en la que destaca tanto su visualidad como su sentido alegórico y metafórico. Los grandes temas del artista y los grandes tópicos de la historiografía son analizados con la minuciosidad que le es característica: el realismo de Courbet, su "sentido" político, su "visión natural"... Y a buen seguro que alguna de estas cuestiones –la feminidad de Courbet, por ejemplo– sorprenderán al lector.

The achievements of Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo were, even during a period of unprecedented artistry, out of the ordinary. Born in Brescia around 1480, he radically reimagined Christian subjects. His surviving oeuvre of roughly fifty paintings – from the intensely poetic Tobias and the Angel to sober self-portraits – represent some of the most profound work of the period.In Painting with Demons, a beautifully illustrated book and the first...

A major reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historiansThis is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. Based on the A....

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, Corot, Daubigny and the Impressionists in the later nineteenth century. A principal theme of the essays is a fundamental concern of Fried’s throughout his career: the relation between painting and beholder. Fried’s typically vivid and strongly argued essays offer many new readings and unexpected insights, tra...

Taylor Caldwell was the author of 40+ novels that went through three periods of her development as a famous novelist. Her Dynasty of Death Series offered a view of an America governed by unscrupulous movers and shakers who used their growing fortunes to dominate even the halls of Congress. Her Mediterranean novels gave us the founding of the modern world running through Pericles, Julius Caesar, Cicero, and even Genghis Khan, including the sayings – interpreted by the author – of the famous...

“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is every-thing.” So wrote Joseph Conrad in the best-known account of literary impressionism, the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movement featuring narratives that paint pictures in readers’ minds. If literary impressionism is anything, it is the project to turn prose into vision.But vision ...

Taylor Caldwell was a late-blooming novelist whose four-novel series, Dynasty of Death, established her as a perennial bestseller and an exposer of deep national conspiracies. However, her massive, highly anticipated tomes failed to earn literary accolades. Affected by Ayn Rand's success, Caldwell made a mid-career shift. Two novels, "The Sound of Thunder" (1957) and the St. Luke story "Dear and Glorious Physician" (1959), which she had contemplated writing since she was 12, marked a trans...

Igniting Your True Purpose and Passion Jumpstart Your Career and Personal Life! The key to achieving true success in life is to master that delicate balance between making money and making meaning. Marketing executive and best selling author, Robert Michael Fried, shows how the same principles you use to accomplish success at work can also help you realize your personal goals, dreams and aspirations. Fried provides a practical yet passionately purpose-driven roadmap that will enable you to...