Michael Fried, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michael Fried

American art critic

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1939

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: historian, university teacher, art historian, journalist, art critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Michael Martin Fried (born April 12, 1939 in New York City) is a modernist art critic and art historian.
He studied at Princeton University and Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford.
He is the J.R.
Herbert Boone Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Art History at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Fried's contribution to art historical discourse involved the debate over the origins and development of modernism.
Along with Fried, this debate's interlocutors include other theorists and critics such as Clement Greenberg, T.
J.
Clark, and Rosalind Krauss.
Since the early 1960s, he has also been close to philosopher Stanley Cavell.