The Moment of Caravaggio

Michael Fried; Michael Fried

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The Moment of Caravaggio

Michael Fried und Michael Fried

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A major reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historians

This is a groundbreaking 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 (1573-1610), 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, The Moment of Caravaggio 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, from the early Boy Bitten by a Lizard to the late Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. The result is an electrifying new perspective on a crucial episode in the history of European painting.

Focusing on the emergence of the full-blown "gallery picture" in Rome during the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth, Fried draws forth an expansive argument, one that leads to a radically revisionist account of Caravaggio's relation to the self-portrait; of the role of extreme violence in his art, as epitomized by scenes of decapitation; and of the deep structure of his epoch-defining realism. Fried also gives considerable attention to the art of Caravaggio's great rival, Annibale Carracci, as well as to the work of Caravaggio's followers, including Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, Bartolomeo Manfredi, and Valentin de Boulogne.

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Michael Fried is the J. R. Herbert Boone Professor Emeritus of Humanities and the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many books, including Absorption and Theatricality, Courbet's Realism, Manet's Modernism, Menzel's Realism, and Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before. He has also written several books of poems, including Promesse du Bonheur. He is the recipient of a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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"Fried is a persistent spectator, and his careful eye produces remarkable analysis that make for a thrilling read. . . . His process of looking should be an inspiration to students of art history at many levels, and his observations about how viewers respond to paintings are thought-provoking." --- "So much has been written about the High Renaissance artist Caravaggio, it is hard to believe more could be said. But the illustrious Michael Fried, of Johns Hopkins University, manages to say considerably more in his trenchant re-examination of the dynamic painter's art. . . . Fried astounds the reader with thoughts about Caravaggio's use of the mirror in art, his fascination with the 'immersive' or 'specular' moment."---Tracey O'Shaughnessy, Republican-American --- "My book of the year. . . . It took me by storm. . . . The book's key analyses are beautiful and, pace the critics, often profoundly surprising. . . . [Fried's] book has robbed me of the common-sensical ground on which and from which I thought I could see—could 'place'—a major artist. It made me aware of what Caravaggio's excessiveness might have been about. And it reminded me of the sheer strangeness—the preposterousness—of European painting's commitment to the real."---T. J. Clark, Artforum --- "Fried encapsulates Caravaggio's tempestuous personality, his place within the religious and political intrigues of the Baroque era, and his primary significance as an artist." --- "Fried's study argues across radically different artistic periods . . . the better to construct an argument that is as big as it is granular."---Angus Trumble, Times Literary Supplement --- "[An] infinitely erudite investigation of, among other things, the pervasiveness of violence in Caravaggio's painting."---Holland Cotter, New York Times --- "A ARTFORUM T. J. Clark Best Book of the Year for 2010" --- "Winner of the 2010 PROSE Award in in Art History & Criticism, Association of American Publishers" --- "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011"

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface and Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Lecture 1 Boy Bitten by a Lizard
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Lecture 2 Immersion and Specularity
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Lecture 3 The Invention of Absorption
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Lecture 4 Skepticism, Shakespeare, Address, Density
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Lecture 5 Severed Representations
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Lecture 6 The Internal Structure of the Pictorial Act
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Photography and Copyright Credits
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Index
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eBook veröffentlicht am:

12. Oktober 2023

eBook ISBN:

9780691252988

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691252988

eBook ISBN: 9780691252988

Schlagwörter für dieses Buch

Caravaggio; Cecco del Caravaggio; Chiaroscuro; Tintoretto; Parmigianino; Guercino; Madonna di Loreto (Caravaggio); Annibale Carracci; The Carracci; Caravaggisti; Giovanni Baglione; Orazio Gentileschi; Uffizi; Pietro da Cortona; The Musicians (Caravaggio); Girolamo Savoldo; Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio); Carlo Dolci; Ludovico Carracci; Giovanni Bellini; Giulio Mancini; Luca Giordano; Benvenuto Cellini; Domenichino; Agostino Carracci; Giornata; Orazio; Cesare Brandi; Giuseppe Cesari; Salvator Rosa; Georges de La Tour; Bronzino; Francesco Maria del Monte; Pontormo; Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio); Milan; Gustave Courbet; Duke of Florence; Andrea del Sarto; Georges Bataille; Museo di Capodimonte; Orazio Borgianni; Fabriano; Lorenzo Lotto; Mario Praz; Giorgio Morandi; Putto; Giorgio Vasari; The Taking of Christ (Caravaggio); Pinacoteca Nazionale (Siena); Carlo Pedretti; Saint Francis in Meditation (Caravaggio); Richard Wollheim; Alphonse Legros; Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio); Madrid; Cerasi Chapel; Cardsharps (Caravaggio); Cigoli; Sacrifice of Isaac (Caravaggio); Titian; San Luigi dei Francesi; Vittorio Sgarbi; Alessandro Turchi; Verism; Antonello da Messina; Galleria nazionale di Parma; Artemisia Gentileschi; Narcissism; Galleria Borghese; John Shearman; Cesare Ripa

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The Moment of Caravaggio

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Über dieses Buch

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes

Photography and Copyright Credits

Index

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