Absorption and Theatricality : Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot by Michael Fried - 1980

University of California Press. Used - Good. 1980. First Edition. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Quarto. xvii & 249 pp. Some shelf wear, noticeable creasing, and significant chipping & tearing to dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Penciled notations to rear flyleaf. Margin notes to text. Altogether a copy in Good condition. Good. (Subject: Art History).

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980. Cloth, xvii, 249 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. "With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood." - Publisher. CONTENTS: 1. The Primacy of Absorption; 2. Toward a Supreme Fiction; 3. Painting and Beholder; Appendix A. Grimm on Unity, Instantaneousness and Related Topics; Appendix B. Two Related Texts: The Lettre sur les spectacles and Die Wahlverwandtschaften; Appendix C. David's Homer Drawings of 1794; Notes; Index.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

University of California Press, 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

University of California Press, 1981-02. Hardcover. Like New. 10x1x0. Hardcover and dust jacket. Fine binding and cover. Jacket slightly sunned. Owners name of Daniel Bell on front end page. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily. <br> From the library of the noted American sociologist, Daniel Bell. Bell was a professor emeritus at Harvard who made seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism.

University of California Press, 2/1/1981. Hardcover. Like New. Signed. Inscribed by author. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Jacket slightly sunned. Faint foxing to top edge. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.*

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of California Press (1981). New Hardcover with a Near Fine DJ. 10.25"x7.3"1.0". be57899.

University of California Press, 1981-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!