Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon: Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry (Classical Presences) - Image 1

£128.50

Oxford University Press Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon: Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry (Classical Presences)

Name: Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon: Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry (Classical Presences)
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 128.5 GBP
Availability: InStock

Themes & Concepts

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£129 today · previous high £129 · all-time low £122

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 48 days · 48 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 48 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £122 (47 days, 97.9%)

Price range: £122 - £129

Price levels: 2 different prices over 48 days

Description

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder über 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.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0198802226
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Themes & Concepts
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 14 September 2017
Listed Since: 05 January 2017

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon: Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry (Classical Presences)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics: The Legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art)

LES REMEDES AUX DEUX FORTUNES: Volume 2, Notes et commentaires, Edition bilingue français-latin

The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in Rome: The Caged Bird and Other Art Forms

Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life: 106 (Analecta Husserliana, 106)

Thomas Reid on Logic, Rhetoric and the Fine Arts: Papers on the Culture of the Mind (The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid)

Winckelmann und die Mythologie der Klassik: Narrative Tendenzen in der Ekphrase der Kunstperiode / Winckelmann e i miti del classico: Decrizione d'arte e sviluppi narrativi (Reihe Der Villa Vigoni)

Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)

Beauty's Appeal: Measure and Excess: 97 (Analecta Husserliana, 97)

Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature

Art, Culture and Nature: From Art History to World Art Studies

Routledge Female Intimacies in 17th-Century French Literature

Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy: 73 (Contributions to Phenomenology, 73)

Culture and Values: A Survey of the Western Humanities, Volume 2

A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Volume 2, Baroque, Rococo and Enlightenment: 02

Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy: 73 (Contributions to Phenomenology, 73)

Criticism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Literature, and Nations in Europe and its Academies

The Spiritual Rococo: Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)

The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the Collection of Antiquities for the British Museum

The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the Collection of Antiquities for the British Museum

Henry More. The Immortality of the Soul: Edited with an Introduction and Notes: 122 (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 122)

Abildgaard: Kunstneren Mellem Oprorerne

Enlightenment and Romance in James Macpherson’s The Poems of Ossian: Myth, Genre and Cultural Change (Studies in Early Modern English Literature)

Nicholas of Cusa's "On Learned Ignorance: A Commentary on "De Docta Ignorantia

I'm Not an Artist: Reclaiming Creativity in the Age of Infinite Content