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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... reason to prefer Lessing inartistic to artistic beauties - these things seem never to have occurred to him , and as a result the slightest differences he may observe between the ancient poets and artists cause him an embarrassment which ...
... reason the diadem occurs as rarely as the horns them- selves in the statues of Bacchus , although , as its inventor , he is often crowned with it by the poets . The horns and the dia- dem provided the poet with subtle allusions to the ...
... reason Aristotle refused to let Pauson's pictures be shown to young people , so that their imagination might be kept as free as possible from all representations of the ugly ( Politics VIII . 5 , p . 526 , ed . Conring ) . Boden ...