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Space and time in artistic practice and aesthetics: the legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Lippert, Sarah(Edited by)
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When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise 'Laocoon: an Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry' in 1766, he outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each art.

Painting was assigned to the realm of space; poetry to the realm of time.

This book explores how artists since the eighteenth century up to the present day have grappled with the consequences of Lessing's theory and those that it spawned.

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Product Details
I. B. Tauris
1786732564 / 9781786732569
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
701.08
30/06/2017
United Kingdom
English
248 pages
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