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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... Lessing's essay , but none of them goes beyond a few general remarks on the distinctions between the arts , nor do they ever develop a reasonably clear system of aesthetics . Plutarch , it is true , devotes considerable space to the ...
... Lessing's own extensive notes , annotation has been added which elucidates points in Lessing's text and notes , and provides translations of Greek , Latin , Italian , and French quoted by Lessing . The longer notes , both Lessing's and ...
... Lessing argues that a poem may be highly suggestive for the artist without necessarily being pic- turesque itself . In other words , a poetical picture cannot always be converted into a material painting ; and Lessing concludes that the ...