The “I” and the “Eye”

The Verbal and the Visual in Post-Renaissance Western Aesthetics

• Author(s): Pragyan Rath,
• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Pages: 315
• ISBN_10: 1443830844
  ISBN_13: 9781443830843
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Criticism & Theory , History / General , History / Social History ,

Description:... The paradigmatic moment of the opposition between the verbal and the visual arts may be seen in Lessing’s treatise on the Laocoön sculptural group, written in 1766; a moment that is identified within a historical framework of modern aesthetics that begins with Lessing, goes through Pater, and then culminates in Greenberg. The author delineates the opposition as a history of diffusions, displacements and idealist reparations of class division.