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 | Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (Johns Hopkins Paperbacks) (Updated Edition) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Edward Allen Mccormick (Translator) Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 1984 ISBN-10: 0-8018-3139-3 / 0801831393 ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-3139-3 / 9780801831393 Originally published in 1766, the "Laocoon" has been called the first modern attempt to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry, and its author, Lessing, the first modern esthetician. Lessing invented the modern concept of the artistic medium and modernist assumptions of the uniqueness of t | |