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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... hence there was no imitation . One might argue that he did not want to imitate the whole , but merely this or that part . Very well . But which individual parts correspond so exactly in the description and the marble that the poet might ...
... Hence the poets must have erred . " Statius and Valerius lived at a time when Roman poetry was already in its decline . Here too they betray their corrupted taste and their bad judgment . Such violations of the laws of artistic ...
... senses , cannot perceive such realities while they are being affected by something repugnant ; hence repugnance is left to work alone and in its full strength , and cannot but be accompanied by a far more violent CHAPTER TWENTY - FIVE 131.