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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... critic's work . Another Frenchman to whom Lessing owes a considerable debt is Philippe de Tubières , Count Caylus ... critics to see in the Tableaux a striking anticipation of Lessing's own con- clusions tend to offset what is ...
... critic . The first two could not easily misuse their feelings or their conclusions . With the critic , however , the case was different . The principal value of his observations depends on their cor- rect application to the individual ...
... critic with the first statue that comes to hand , while the critic , without scruple and to the great scandalization of the learned world , condemns that same statue to the dust from which it was dug.c On the other hand , the influence ...