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My Laocoön : alternative claims in the interpretation of artworks / Richard Brilliant.
Author
Brilliant, Richard
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Description
xvi, 146 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
NB105.A34 A7 2000
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Subject(s)
Art criticism
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History
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Agesander
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Laocoön group
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Laocoön (Greek mythological character)
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Art
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Art
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works of art
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Series
California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ; 8.
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Discovery series ; 8
Summary note
"Analyzing the theme, provenance, and history of the Vatican Laocoon, Richard Brilliant traces the interpretation of this masterpiece of Greco-Roman sculpture through the ages, showing how these interpretations have shaped its reception. Several Laocoons are identified in this study: the alleged lost "Greek original"; the extant marbles sculpted in the first century; the sixteenth-century restoration and its affect; the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century topos of critical judgment; and the twentieth-century re-restored artifact of ancient art. Yet the Vatican Laocoon contains all of these versions in its obdurate self, and My Laocoon treats their history as a means of demonstrating an artwork's power to transcend its critical reception." "Brilliant tells the Laocoon story with wit and crudition, and his selection of illustrations demonstrates the influence that this work has exerted over the centuries."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-132) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Laocoons. 1. Laocoon I: 1506. 2. Laocoon A and B: Before 1506. 3. Laocoon II: Winckelmann, Lessing, Goethe. 4. Laocoon III: After 1960
pt. 2. Comparanda. 5. Problematic Exemplars; or, What's in a Name? Titian, Sacred and Profane Love: Entitlement and the Dialectic. Velazquez, Las Meninas: Epistemological Argument. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Ontology versus Teleology
pt. 3. The Interpreter's Claim. 6. "My Laocoon."
ISBN
0520216822 ((alk. paper))
9780520216822 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
99041240
OCLC
41967216
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