Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryJohns Hopkins University Press, 1984 - 259 Seiten Originally published in 1766, the Laocoön has been called the first extended attempt in modern times to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry; its author, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, has been called the first modern esthetician. As Michael Fried writes in his foreword, it is Lessing who invented the modern concept of the artistic medium, and it is in the Laocoön, ultimately, that we find the source for modernist assumptions of the uniqueness and autonomy of the individual arts. And, as Fried argues, it is a work that present an impressively coherent esthetic semiotics, a book that at once sums up and moves beyond classical thought about the nature of the sign. Long a central text for literary critics, art historians, and philosophers, the Laocoön is here returned to print in Edward Allen McCormick's authoritative translation. McCormick's introduction, notes, and biographical appendix have been retained; the new foreword by Michael Fried emphasizes Lessing's current importance for recent trends in art history and literary theory. |
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... Laocoön is at- tacked and killed by two serpents sent by Apollo , whom Laocoön had offended by desecrating his temple . Another Greek , Arctinus , says that Laocoön and one of his sons per- ished , while Sophocles ' lost tragedy ...
... Laocoön ) .1 One of the more important of his critics , Christian Garve ( 1742-98 ) , published a lengthy review of the Laocoön in 1769 which was generally favorable to the work but did contain a number of objections , most of them of a ...
... Laocoön ? Richardson says , " Virgil's Laocoön has to cry Lout because the poet's aim is not so much to excite pity for him as to instill fear and terror in the Trojans . " This I will concede , although Richardson seems not to have ...