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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... Venus with such terrifying features that at this moment she might be taken for a Fury rather than for the goddess of love . Spence searches in vain for such a Venus among the ancient works of art . And what conclusions does he draw ...
... Venus , but a Juno . Give it charms , but those which are more commanding and masculine than graceful , and we have not a Venus , but a Minerva . Worst of all , a wrathful Venus , a Venus driven by fury and the desire for revenge , is ...
... Venus ( Odes I. 4. 5-7 ) : Iam Cytherea choros ducit Venus , imminente luna : Iunctaeque Nymphis Gratiae decentes Alterno terram quatiunt pede . . . § does he mean that these , too , were religious dances ? But I am wasting too many ...