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Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics: The Legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

By Sarah Lippert (Editor)
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$40.95
By Sarah Lippert (Editor)
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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. Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics 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. As the book reveals, m...

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Art, Architecture & PhotographyArt - TechniquesArt - History & CriticismPainting TechniquesGeneral & Miscellaneous ArtGeneral & Miscellaneous Painting TechniquesIndividual Artists