From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centeri
"A highly original and gripping account of the works of Eakins and Crane. That remarkable combination of close reading and close viewing which Fried uniquely commands is brought to bear on the pr
This book displays the underlying structure of a complex body of law and integrates that structure with moral principles.Charles Fried grounds the basic legal institution of contract in the morality
During the twenty years following Caravaggio's death, his revolutionary precedent inspired the creation of a remarkable body of paintings. Drawing together works by Bartolomeo Manfredi, Valentin de Bo
"In America today there is no lyric work more compelling and well made than To the Center of the Earth," Allen Grossman wrote ten years ago of Michael Fried's last collection of poetry. Fried's new bo
Daisy Fried’s third book of poetry is a book of unsettling, unsettled Americans. Fried finds her Americans everywhere, watching Henry Kissinger leave the Louvre, trapped on a Tiber bridge by a crowd o
‘There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.’ Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe
How to Love Your Kids More Than You Hate Your Ex is a fun and informative guide for parents to help them deal with the difficult emotional process of divorce and establish the priority of loving their
How To Prepare For Your RetirementYou’re approaching the next stage of your life: retirement. Althoughthere is no crystal ball that can predict the future, you can beginplotting your course to a fi na
Contract as Promise is a study of the philosophical foundations of contract law in which Professor Fried effectively answers some of the most common assumptions about contract law and strongly propose
