The Johns Hopkins Academy Lecture: Michael Fried

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Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins Academy professor and professor emeritus of the humanities, will give a talk titled "All or Nothing: Manet in the 1860s."

Michael Fried studied at Princeton and Harvard and was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College Oxford. He has published numerous books in art criticism, art history, and literary criticism/history, along with four books of poems. His central concern has been the nature of modernism in the visual arts, but he has also published on Caravaggio and other 16th- and 17th-century masters. In 2004, he received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Mellon Foundation, is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the British Academy, and is also a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et Lettres.