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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... refer- ences of some of the ancient grammarians we cannot deter- mine how the poet treated his subject . But of this much I am certain : he did not portray Laocoon as more stoical than Philoctetes and Hercules . Stoicism is not dramatic ...
... refer to a person known everywhere because of a painful ulcer ? Cuius hulceris . And is this cuius to refer to the mere claudicantem , and the claudi- cantem perhaps to the puerem , which is back in the preceding clause ? No one has the ...
... refer to anything more decisive for my argument than this poem of Sadolet . It is worthy of an ancient poet , and since it can well serve in place of an engraving , I venture to insert it here in its entirety : DE LAOCOONTIS STATUA ...