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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... says so , but chiefly because we are able to see from the art works enumerated by the ancients that many centuries later art had still not progressed much fur- ther , and that the paintings of a Polygnotus , for example , are far from ...
... says something similar of rhetoric and poetry , but certainly not of poetry and painting . Ὡς δ ̓ ἕτερόν τι ἡ ῥητορικὴ φαντασία βούλεται , καὶ ἕτερον ἡ παρὰ ποιηταῖς , οὐκ ἀν λάθοι σε , οὐδ ̓ ὅτι τῆς μὲν ἐν ποιήσει τέλος ἐστὶν ἔκπληξις ...
... say that the whole de- scription was taken from an ancient procession of deities representing the seasons would greatly diminish his renown , or rob him of it entirely . And why ? " Because , " says the Eng- lishman , " such processions ...