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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)

Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry

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Paperback / softback by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Edward Allen McCormick

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Originally published in 1766, the "Laocoon" has been called the first modern attempt to define the distinctive spheres of art... Read more

    Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
    Publication Date: 28/03/1984
    ISBN13: 9780801831393, 978-0801831393
    ISBN10: 0801831393

    Number of Pages: 296

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    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)

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