Collected Writings

Sobre el libro Collected Writings de Michael Fried publicado por Columbia al 2026:

Essays, Poems, Interviews Volume I: The Antitheatrical Imperative and Other Essays Volume II: The Edge of the Table: Prose Poems Volume III: Exit Interviews This collection brings together three interrelated volumes by the renowned writer and thinker Michael Fried. In studies of painters as varied as Caravaggio, Fragonard, and Matisse, Fried has transformed how we understand artistic form and technique, and his insightful literary-critical work has been enriched by his practice as a highly accomplished poet. Imbued with the distinctive combination of perceptiveness, imagination, and analytical rigor that he has displayed throughout his career, Collected Writings also serves as a personal record of Fried’s intellectual and critical formation. The first volume, The Antitheatrical Imperative and Other Essays, ranges in topic from Manet to Pollock. The second volume, The Edge of the Table, is a collection of exquisitely constructed prose poems accompanied by photographs by James Welling. The third volume, Exit Interviews, is an autobiographical text that retraces the development of the arguments and ideas that informed Fried’s groundbreaking works while paying close attention to both the personal and institutional contexts of intellectual labor.