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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... look at you , they will still be glad to look at my picture , not because it portrays you but because it is a 1 [ Pliny ( Natural Histories XXXV . 151 ) tells the story of a Corinthian potter , Dibutades , whose daughter fell in love ...
... look at them , until they finally fill us with disgust or horror . La Mettrie , who had himself portrayed in painting and en- graving as a second Democritus , seems to be laughing only the first few times we look at him . Look at him ...
... look together , for as soon as we attempt to do that we begin to take offense at Virgil's picture and find it highly inartistic . Granted that Virgil's changes of the model were not un- fortunate , they were nevertheless arbitrary . One ...