Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
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Michael Fried reinterprets eighteenth-century French painting through the relationship between painted figures and the viewer standing before them. Examining artists including Chardin, Greuze, Vien, and David alongside the criticism of Denis Diderot, he traces a growing ideal of absorbed figures who appear unaware of being observed. Absorption and Theatricality is a major work of art history and criticism, connecting pictorial structure, audience, dramatic effect, and changing artistic values in pre-Revolutionary France.
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