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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... 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 reconciled with the pain in all its disfiguring violence , so it had to be re ...
... becomes possible for the very reason that in his description it is reduced to a less offensive manifestation of physical imperfection and ceases , as it were , to be ugly in its effect . Hence , what the poet cannot use by itself , he ...
... becomes angry and , without saying a word , strikes him so ungently between cheek and ear that his teeth , his blood , and his life fly out of his mouth in one . This is too brutal . The irascible and murderous Achilles becomes more ...