一、前言迈克尔·弗雷德(Michael Fried,1939—)是一位独特且又充满争议的学者。一方面,他可能是当代西方唯一一位既通过学术著作又通过诗歌来阐发美术史问题的学者,而且这些美术史论著和诗集早已经成为研究西方现代美术史的必读书目,但在另一方面,他的作品中所流露出的极端形式主义取向,在美术史向文化史靠拢的今天总是会给人 I. Preface Michael Fried (1939-) is a unique and controversial scholar. On the one hand, he may be the only one in contemporary Western scholars who not only through academic works but also through poetry to elucidate the history of art history, these art history treatises and poems have long been a must for the study of the history of Western modern art. However, On the one hand, the extreme formalism shown in his works always gives people today when art history is closer to cultural history