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Originally published in 1766, the Laocoön has been called the first extended attempt in modern times to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry; its author, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, has been called the first modern esthetician. As Michael Fried writes in his foreword, it is Lessing who invented the modern concept of the artistic medium, and it is in the Laocoön, ultimately, that we find the source for modernist assumptions of the uniqueness...

"An anthology of essays by such notables as W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and W.H. Auden offer their views on painting and works by such great painters as Picasso, Van Gogh, and Matisse." -- Amazon.com viewed January 25, 2021.

The author's thesis is that Hemingway did in words what Expressionist painters were doing in paint. Nelson describes Expressionism as a twentieth century phenomenon chracteristic of our age, marked by emotion, distortion, violent color, line and contrast, haunted by " uncontrollable cries of pain." He analyzes Hemingway's works and relates certain elements in these to works of art. 18 reproductions of works by Cezanne, Picasso, Klee, Munch and others...

Picture-poems created in a simultaneous fusion of painting and poetry.

William Blake -- some have called him a genius, some have called him a madman... and many have called him both. As the essays in this book show, Blake offers his readers a vision of the world so coherent that even his simplest songs convey rich and exciting meaning, so unified that even his most obscure prophecies present an unexpectedly luminous conception of reality. One of the leaders of the resurgence of interest in Blake, Northrop Frye, has selected...