Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry. Translated from the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Ebook written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Edward Calvert Beasley. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry.
The volume shows how the Laocoon exploits Greek and Roman models to sketch the proper spatial and temporal 'limits' (Grenzen) of what Lessing called 'poetry' and 'painting'; at the same time it demonstrates how Lessing's essay is embedded within Enlightenment theories of art, perception, and historical interpretation, as well as within nascent eighteenth-century ideas about the 'scientific.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) is the most eminent literary figure of the German Enlightenment and a writer of European significance. His range of interest as dramatist, poet, critic, philosopher, theologian, philologist and much else besides was comparable to that of Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, with all of whose ideas he engaged. He contributed decisively to the emergence of German.
Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry. Translated from the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Authors: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Edward Calvert Beasley: Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853: Original from: the New York Public Library: Digitized: Jul 22, 2008: Length: 255 pages: Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote.
Originally published in 1766, Lessing's seminal tract is a turning point in the study of Western art. In this essay on the origins, forms, and influences of painting and poetry, Lessing helped frame modern conceptions of the artistic medium, and founded our modernist assumptions of the uniqueness of the individual arts. In this essay on the origins, forms, and influences of painting and poetry.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) is the foremost literary figure of the German Enlightenment. He is the founder of modern German literature, who urged his compatriots to look to Shakespeare and other English writers rather than France for inspiration. He was also a brilliant controversialist, and his thoughts on philosophy and religion, which challenged many traditional assumptions, gave.
Rethinking Lessing’s Laocoon provides a reassessment of this seminal work on its 250th anniversary, examining Lessing’s interpretation of ancient art and poetry, the Enlightenment contexts of the treatise, and its subsequent legacy in the fields of aesthetic, semiotics, and philosophy. Lessing’s essay is focused on an ancient statue and its interpretation, revisiting Greek and Roman.