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My Laocoön : alternative claims in the interpretation of artworks / Richard Brilliant.
Main entry:

Brilliant, Richard.

Title & Author:

My Laocoön : alternative claims in the interpretation of artworks / Richard Brilliant.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.

Description:

xvi, 146 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Series:

Discovery series ; 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-132) and index.
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."
Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0520216822 (alk. paper)
9780520216822 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Agesander. Laocoön group.
Laocoön (Greek mythological character) Art.
Laocoön (Greek mythological character)
Agesander. Laocoon group.
Laocoön group (Agesander)
Art criticism History.
Laocoon (Personnage légendaire) Art.
Critique d'art Histoire.
Art criticism.
Laocoöngroepen.
Interpretatie.
Receptie.
Laocoon (Greek mythology) in art.
Sculpture, Greek Influence.
Laocoon (sculpture)

Form/genre:

works of art.
Art.
History.
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ; 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216255
Call No.: NB1116.A265.25 L3 2000
Status: Available

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