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 To Anna
All rights reserved. Published 1998
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN: o-226~26318-5 (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 Z3948-1992.