Laocoon: Or The Limits Of Poetry And Painting (1836)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Laocoon: Or The Limits Of Poetry And Painting (1836)
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing Co
Country
United States
Published
27 October 2008
Pages
408
ISBN
9781437264302

Laocoon: Or The Limits Of Poetry And Painting (1836)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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.

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