Author: Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim; Author: Translator Mccormick, Edward Allen
Johns Hopkins Paperbacks; Paperback
Published: March 1984
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801831393
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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)