MICHAEL FRIED is the Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities at the johns :Hopkins University.

Cover photograph: Michael Fried in Anthony Caro's studio, Triangle Art Workshop, Pine Plains, New York, july 1986.

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © tgg8 by Michael Fried All rights reserved. Published 1998 Printed in the United States of America

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ISBN: (cloth) ISBN: o-226-26319-3 (paper)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fried, Michael.

Art and objecthood : essays and reviews I Michael Fried. p. em.

Mainly reprints of the art criticism written by the author between 1961 and 1977·

Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN o-226-26318-5 (cloth: alk. paper).-ISBN o-226-26319-3

(pbk. ' alk. papec) 1. Art, Modern-2oth century. 2. Art. I. Title.

N64go.F727 1998 709'.04.-dc21

@The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirement.<:> of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39·48-1992.

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