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Michael Fried was born on 12 April, 1939 in United States, is an American art historian. Discover Michael Fried's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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1939

Michael Martin Fried (born April 12, 1939 in New York City) is a modernist art critic and art historian.

He studied at Princeton University and Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford.

He is the J.R. Herbert Boone Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Art History at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Fried's contribution to art historical discourse involved the debate over the origins and development of modernism.

Along with Fried, this debate's interlocutors include other theorists and critics such as Clement Greenberg, T. J. Clark, and Rosalind Krauss.

1945

As well as applying the distinction to 18th-century painting, Fried employs related categories in his art criticism of post-1945 American painting and sculpture.

Fried rejects the effort by some critics to conflate his art-critical and art-historical writing.

1958

In 1958, he wrote a letter to Clement Greenberg expressing his admiration for his writing and first met him in the Spring of that year.

In September 1958, he moved to Oxford, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, and then to London, England, in 1961–62, where he studied philosophy part-time at University College London (UCL), under Stuart Hampshire and Richard Wollheim.

1960

Since the early 1960s, he has also been close to philosopher Stanley Cavell.

1961

In 1961 Hilton Kramer offered him the post of London correspondent for the journal Arts.

In the fall of 1961, Fried began his friendship with the sculptor Anthony Caro, who invited him to write the introduction to his Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition in 1963.

1962

In 1962 Fried had a short collection of eight poems ("In Other Hands") published by Fantasy Press in Oxford, the first of others to come.

In the late summer of that year, he returned to the U.S, where he combined studying for a Ph.D in art history at Harvard with writing art criticism, initially for Art International.

1965

In 1965 he curated the exhibition "Three American painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella" at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum.

1967

In his essay, "Art and Objecthood," published in 1967, Fried argued that Minimalism's focus on the viewer's experience, rather than the relational properties of the work of art exemplified by modernism, made the work of art indistinguishable from one's general experience of the world.

Minimalism (or "literalism" as Fried called it) offered an experience of "theatricality" or "presence" rather than "presentness" (a condition that required continual renewal).

The essay inadvertently opened the door to establishing a theoretical basis for Minimalism as a movement based in a conflicting mode of phenomenological experience than the one offered by Fried.

In "Art and Objecthood" Fried criticized the "theatricality" of Minimalist art.

1980

He introduced the opposing term "absorption" in his 1980 book, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot.

Drawing on Diderot's criticism, Fried argues that whenever a self-consciousness of viewing exists, absorption is compromised, and theatricality results.

1985

Fried was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985 and the American Philosophical Society in 2003.

1998

Fried describes his early career in the introduction to Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews (1998), an anthology of his art criticism in the 60s and 70s.

Although he majored in English at Princeton it was there that he became interested in writing art criticism.

While at Princeton he met the artist Frank Stella and through him Walter Darby Bannard.

2008

Fried revisited some of these concerns in Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before (London and New Haven 2008).

In a reading of works by prominent art photographers of the last 20 years (Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Demand among others) Fried asserted that concerns of anti-theatricality and absorption are central to the turn by contemporary photographers towards large-scale works "for the wall."

2018

In more recent years, Fried has written several long and complex histories of modern art, most famously on Édouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, Adolph Menzel, and painting in the late 18th century.

Fried is also a poet, having written The Next Bend in the Road, Powers, To the Center of the Earth, and Promesse du Bonheur.