The moment of Caravaggio

Summary: This is an 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 (1571-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. Based on the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, this book displays Fried's unique combination of interpretive brilliance, historical seriousness, and theoretical sophistication, providing sustained and unexpected readings of a wide range of major works. The result is an electrifying new perspective on a crucial episode in the history of European painting.--[book cover].

Record details

ISBN: 9781400835935
ISBN: 9780691252971
ISBN: 9780691147017
ISBN: 0691147019
ISBN: 9780691252988
ISBN: 069125298X
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 304 pages : color illustrations).
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Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:october.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Lecture 1. Boy bitten by a lizard -- Lecture 2. Immersion and specularity -- Lecture 3. The invention of absorption -- Lecture 4. Skepticism, Shakespeare, address, density -- Lecture 5. Severed representations -- Lecture 6. The internal structure of the pictorial act -- Conclusion.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.