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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... latter case the arm should be thought of as being in a state of relaxation . The date of the group , long open to conjecture , is now gen- erally agreed to be approximately 50 B.C.2 Lessing himself places it in a much later time , i.e. ...
... latter has his original model directly before him , while the former must first apply his imagination until he believes that he has it before him . The latter creates something beautiful out of indefinite and weak images of arbitrary ...
... latter ( which only we who look at the picture are supposed to discover in it ) are to be introduced so that the figures in the painting do not see them ( or at least appear not to see them ) -when Count Caylus does this , I say , the ...