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American critic Michael Fried, in the essay "Art and Objecthood" (1967), apotheosized "art" in contrast to "theatricality"—another version of Greenberg's elevation of formal art over literary art, more particularly of Cubism over Dadaism arguing that "it is by virtue of their presentness and instantaneousness that modernist painting and sculpture defeat theater".
Fried began to develop his ideas in the now famous 1967 essay, Art and Objecthood, in which he criticised minimalist art for its theatricality, suggesting that it depended upon the participation of the public.
The equally diverse exhibition "Perverted by Theater" at Apexart, another nonprofit, was organized by the artist Franklin Evans and the playwright Paul David Young as a rebuttal to the famous 1967 essay "Art and Objecthood," in which the critic Michael Fried condemned what he saw as a corrupting theatricality in new art.
This series explores how we navigate the worried mind, through essay, art and memoir".
In his essay "Art and Revolution," he proposed that theaters should be underwritten by the state and that all tickets should be free.
Mr. Fried's landmark 1967 essay, "Art and Objecthood," gloomily predicted an art world that would abandon aesthetic values in favor of theatrical effect.
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