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ISBN: 9780486443874
author:
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
/
Ellen Frothingham
publishing house: Dover Publications
publication date: 2005
-11
binding: Paperback
price: USD 11.95
number of pages: 272
An Essay upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing / Ellen Frothingham
overview
Originally published in 1766, Lessing's seminal tract is a turning point in the study of Western art. In this essay on the origins, forms, and influences of painting and poetry, Lessing helped frame modern conceptions of the artistic medium, and founded our modernist assumptions of the uniqueness of the individual arts.
