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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... beauty . If we apply this now to the Laocoön , the principle which I am seeking becomes apparent . The master strove to attain the highest beauty possible under the given condition of physical pain . The demands of beauty could not be ...
... beauty . Because the poet is able to show the elements of beauty in succession only , he abstains entirely from the depiction of physical beauty as such . He feels that these elements , when placed in succession , are unable to achieve ...
... beauty ? But who would do this ? If we dissuade her from taking one particular way to attain such pictures , and from following confusedly the footsteps of a sister art without ever reaching the same goal , do we thereby exclude her ...