Michael Fried
Michael Fried is Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous scholarly works—most recently What Was Literary Impressionism?, Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo, and French Suite: A Book of Essays—and four volumes of poetry.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a large relief
in granite of two horses by the American sculptor
Charles Ray. In a room of its own. The horses are
standing quietly, facing to the left. There is no context,
no ground plane, no horizon—just the two horses.
