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Laocoön : an essay on the limits of painting and poetry / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ; translated, with an introduction and notes, by Edward Allen McCormick.
LIBRA N64 .L742 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781.
- Standardized Title:
- Laokoon. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics--Early works to 1800.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 259 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Johns Hopkins paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
- Summary:
- Originally published in 1766, the "Laocoon" has been called the first modern attempt to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry, and its author, Lessing, the first modern esthetician. Lessing invented the modern concept of the artistic medium and modernist assumptions of the uniqueness of the individual arts. A new Foreword by Michael Fried emphasizes Lessing's current importance regarding trends in art history and literary theory. (Philosophy)
- Notes:
- Translation of: Laokoon.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0801831393
- OCLC:
- 10145586
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