Michael Fried

Michael Fried is the J. R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many books, including "Absorption and Theatricality, Courbet's Realism, Manet's Modernism, Menzel's Realism," and "Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before." He has also written several books of poems, most recently "The Next Bend in the Road." In 2004, he received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.