Laocoon - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing & Ellen Frothingham

Laocoon

By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing & Ellen Frothingham

  • Release Date: 2013-01-24
  • Genre: Philosophy

Book Synopsis

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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