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Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon - Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon - Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder uber die
Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (Laocoon, or on the Limits of
Painting and Poetry) in 1766. Over the last 250 years, Lessing's
essay has exerted an incalculable influence on western critical
thinking. Not only has it directed the history of
post-Enlightenment aesthetics, it has also shaped the very
practices of 'poetry' and 'painting' in a myriad of different ways.
In this anthology of specially commissioned chapters - comprising
the first ever edited book on the Laocoon in English - a range of
leading critical voices has been brought together to reassess
Lessing's essay on its 250th anniversary. Combining perspectives
from multiple disciplines (including classics, intellectual
history, philosophy, aesthetics, media studies, comparative
literature, and art history), the book explores the Laocoon from a
plethora of critical angles. Chapters discuss Lessing's
interpretation of ancient art and poetry, the cultural backdrops of
the eighteenth century, and the validity of the Laocoon's
observations in the fields of aesthetics, semiotics, and
philosophy. 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' study of Classical antiquity
(Altertumswissenschaft). To engage critically with the Laocoon, and
to make sense of its legacy over the last 250 years, consequently
involves excavating various 'classical presences': by looking back
to the Graeco-Roman past, the volume demonstrates, Lessing forged a
whole new tradition of modern aesthetics.
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