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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... turns into a fop . His laugh becomes a grin . The same holds true for screaming . The violent pain which extorts the scream either soon subsides or else destroys the sufferer . When a man of firmness and endurance cries out he does not ...
... turn to those scenes in which Philoctetes no longer appears as the abandoned sick man , but has hopes of leaving the bleak desert island and returning to his kingdom ; that is to say , in those scenes where his entire misfortune is ...
... turn gave it to the courier Argeïphontes , and Lord Hermes gave it to Pelops , driver of horses and Pelops again gave it to Atreus , the shepherd of the people . Atreus dying left it to Thyestes of the rich flocks , and Thyestes left it ...