About the Author

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Karen Wilkin is an independent curator and art critic based in New York. A specialist in 20th-century modernism, she has written monographs on David Smith, Anthony Caro, Stuart Davis, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Isaac Witkin, and Hans Hofmann and organized exhibitions of their work internationally. Wilkin is the Contributing Editor for Art for the Hudson Review and a regular contributor to The New Criterion and the Wall Street Journal. Her book Anthony Caro: Interior and Exterior was published by Lund Humphries in 2011 and she was the overall editor of the series of 5 volumes published by Lund Humphries on Caro's work.Michael Fried is an eminent art historian and critic. He has written extensively about abstract painting and sculpture since the Second World War, but his specialist knowledge also encompasses Italian painting in the 16th and 17th centuries, contemporary art photography and theories of theatricality and objecthood. He is J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities at John Hopkins University."