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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... given a far wider scope in modern times . It is claimed that representation in the arts covers all of visible nature , of which the beautiful is but a small part . Truth and expression are art's first law , and as nature herself is ever ...
... given us an excellent picture ? ↳ I can well understand how his imagination could suggest this or that detail to him but I simply cannot see why his critical judgment should compel him to change into these different ones the beautiful ...
... given command of the Greek army sent to rescue her . He proved himself one of the bravest war- riors in the struggle against the Trojans , but his arrogance ulti- mately brought great grief to the Greeks in that he aroused the anger of ...