Laocoon's Body and the Aesthetics of Pain

Laocoon's Body and the Aesthetics of Pain Winckelmann, Lessing, Herder, Moritz, Goethe - Kritik

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Publisher's Synopsis

Explores the contradictions within and between the interpretations of the famous Greek statue, the Laocoon, by the leading 18th-century German theorists of classical beauty, who used it as the focus of their approaches to understanding pain. The quotations are in both German and English. Annotation

Book information

ISBN: 9780814324042
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 700.1
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 231
Weight: 589g
Height: 234mm
Width: 158mm
Spine width: 25mm