Laocoon
Subtitle: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (Johns Hopkins Paperbacks)
Contributors: Edward Allen McCormick (Translator)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 1, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780801831393
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Literary studies: general; Philosophy Of Art; History - General; Esthetics; Philosophy; Literature: Classics; Laocoon group; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Agesander; Aesthetics; Agesander.; Early works to 1800; Laocoèon group
First sentence: The general and distinguishing characteristics of the Greek masterpieces of painting and sculpture are, according to Herr Winckelmann, noble simplicity and quiet grandeur, both in posture and in expression.