Art and Nature (Prose and Criticism) is a collection of michael fred's art criticism. He is an outstanding contemporary American art historian and critic. His artistic criticism constitutes the core text of late modernism, including an ambitious introduction to the exhibitions of three American painters, a preliminary reflection on minimalism, morris louis, who represents the peak of his criticism, and epoch-making artistic and physical attributes.

These papers not only established the basic terms of the heyday and later period of modernism, but also opened the door to criticize American minimalist art. Until today, they are still stimulating people's debate about modernism and postmodernism in visual art.

The author Michael Fried (1939-) is one of the most outstanding art historians and art critics in contemporary America. Fred's reputation as a critic is mainly based on his interpretation of American post-abstract expressionism art and his criticism of minimalist art. It is he who started the decades-long debate between modernism and postmodernism, and he himself became an outstanding representative of late modernism theory. His critical text is his own "Art and Physical Properties: Papers and Comments" (1998).

Masterpieces of art history include Focus and Theater: Paintings and Audiences in the Diderot Era (1980), Realism in Courbet (1990), Modernism in Manet (1996) and Time in Caravaggio (2065438).

Translator Shen, professor and doctoral supervisor of Zhejiang University, director of the Institute of Aesthetics and Critical Theory of Zhejiang University. He has been engaged in the teaching and research of western modern aesthetics, modern art history and art criticism history for a long time, and has written the 20th Century Art Criticism (won the second prize of the Ministry of Education). Frontier and Development of Painting Style, Selected Works of Frye's Art Criticism, Greenberg's Art and Culture, and Leo Steinberg's Alternative Criterion translated by roger fry (co-translated), etc. Editor-in-Chief: Art and Concept Translation Series, Art Theory and Criticism Translation Series, Introduction to Art Classic Literature Series, Introduction to Art Discipline Series, etc.

Translator Zhang Xiaojian, Ph.D., Institute of Aesthetics and Critical Theory, Zhejiang University. He mainly pays attention to western art philosophy and art criticism, and has published many papers, including many translations of Kant after Duchamp by Thierry De Defoe (co-translated by Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House).