"Laocoön, or On the Limits of Painting and Poetry" is a programmatic treatise by the poet, playwright, and aesthetician G. E. Lessing, devoted to the problem of defining the boundary between painting and poetry. First published in 1766 in Berlin.
It is a crucial document of aesthetic reflection of the era, which at the time of publication was received positively, and whose ideas, embraced with great enthusiasm by many, immediately led to a wide response.
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