MIC

HA

EL

FRIED is the Herbert B

oone Professor of Hum

anities at the johns :Hopkins

University.

Cover photograph: M

ichael Fried in Anthony C

aro's studio, Triangle Art W

orkshop, Pine Plains, N

ew Y

ork, july 1986.

The U

niversity of Chicago Press, C

hicago 60637 T

he University of C

hicago Press, Ltd., London

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ichael Fried All rights reserved. Published 1998 Printed in the U

nited States of Am

erica

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ISBN:

(cloth) ISBN

: o-226-26319-3 (paper)

Library of Congress C

ataloging-in-Publication Data

Fried, Michael.

Art and objecthood : essays and review

s I Michael Fried.

p. em

. M

ainly reprints of the art criticism w

ritten by the author between

1961 and 1977· Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN

o-226-26318-5 (cloth: alk. paper).-ISBN

o-226-26319-3 (pbk. ' alk. papec)

1. A

rt, Modern-2oth century.

2. Art.

I. Title. N

64go.F727 1998

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he paper used in this publication meets the m

inimum

requirement.<:> of the A

merican

National Standard for Inform

ation Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library

Materials, A

NSI Z39·48-1992.

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