<DIV><DIV>With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood.<BR><BR>"A reinterpretation supported by immense learning and by a series of brilliantly perceptive readings of paintings and criticism alike. . . . An exhilarating book."&#8212;John Barrell, <i>London Review of Books</i></DIV>