Michael Fried - Selected Bibliography

Selected Bibliography

In more recent years, Fried has written several long and complex histories of modern art, most famously on Édouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, Adolph Menzel, and painting in the late 18th century.

• Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Awarded 1980 Gottschalk Prize.
• Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Awarded 1990 Charles C. Eldredge Prize.
• Courbet's Realism Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
• Manet's Modernism Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. French translation awarded 2000 Prix Littéraire Etats-Unis.
• Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
• Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
• Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
• The Moment of Caravaggio Princeton University Press, 2010.

Fried is a poet, having written The Next Bend in the Road, Powers, and To the Center of the Earth.