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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... line between the two arts . N Another attempt to formulate the relationship between painting and poetry is to be ... lines 361f . " Poetry is like painting : one work seizes your fancy if you stand close to it , another if you stand ...
... lines are by Sadolet . They would doubtless have come more graphically from Virgil if a visible model had fired his imagination , and would then have been better than those he gives us in their stead : Bis medium amplexi , bis collo ...
... lines and colors can express on canvas , and the critic who praised it in this exaggerated manner must have looked at it from a completely false point of view . He must have paid greater regard to the foreign ornaments which the poet ...