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

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. 'Space and Time in Artistic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Lippert, Sarah J., 1975- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2017.
Series:International library of modern and contemporary art ; 23.
Subjects:
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, > 1729-1781.
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, > 1729-1781
1700-1799
Authors, German > 18th century > Biography.
Écrivains allemands > 18e siècle > Biographies.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > German.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
DRAMA > Continental European.
Authors, German
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the tenets of Lessing and his legacy
  • 1. Drawing the line: gender, artistic theory and absolutism in Raoux's paintings and Lessing's words
  • 2. Bridging space and time: Winckelmann's theory and its aftermath (1754-78)
  • 3. Correcting Lessing's error: E.H. Toelken's Addendum to Loakoon, 1822
  • 4. The temporality of imitation in the work of Moreau and Gérôme
  • 5. Painterly myopia and the main ingredient: flesh: a look at work of Soutine, Bacon, Dubuffet and de Kooning
  • 6. Almost: Greeberg and Lessing
  • 7. In the body's space and the body's time: feeling your way through Richard Serra's The Matter of Time
  • 8. The art of becoming: the symbiosis of time, space and film in Pull my Daisy
  • Conclusion: limit-imposing systems
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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