Fried, Michael

Michael Fried, a leading art historian and critic, was born in New York. He first became known for his writings on abstract painting and sculture; his books on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French painting and on Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane, including "Realism, Writing, Disfiguration" and "Absorption and Theatricality", are recognized as major accomplishments. He lives in Baltimore and is the Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities at the John Hopkins University.