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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... possible that the ancient armorers may have represented Mars on their helmets and shields in the same hovering attitude that Addison believed he saw him 2 The first edition is dated 1747 , the second 1755 , and bears the title ...
... possible . The right arm is a later addition , and a piece of a lance has been placed in his hand . On the left arm there is the strap of the shield which he carried . If one observes that the head and eyes are directed upward and that ...
... possible on human society ; the wretched man has no companion near , no friendly neighbor ; his hap- piness would have been great if he had had even a single bad one ! Perhaps Thomson had this passage in mind when he made Melisander ...