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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... attempt to formulate the relationship between painting and poetry is to be found in the Ars Poetica of the Apulian poet Horace . This work , which was quite obviously not intended to present a complete theory of poetry , made the ...
... attempt to confront the problem of the relationship of the arts to one another in a critical manner . The bulk of the evidence is unfortunately on the other side : Ut pictura poesis and Simonides ' " witty antith- esis " held the field ...
... attempt to set them in due order . We must see first only the serpents and then Laocoön ; we must not attempt to picture to ourselves how both would look together , for as soon as we attempt to do that we begin to take offense at ...