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Towards a new Laocoon

Title
Towards a new Laocoon / [catalogue edited by Penelope Curtis and Stephen Feeke].
Publication
Leeds : Henry Moore Institute, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Curtis, Penelope.
  • Feeke, Stephen.
  • Henry Moore Institute (Leeds, England)
Description
73 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm
Summary
Laocoon was the Trojan priest who warned that the infamous wooden horse was a Greek trick; not only was he ignored but the Greek gods permanently silenced him by sending giant serpents to kill him and his sons. This legend is the subject of the 'Laocoon' group, an antique sculpture with a legacy like no other. This exhibition is about the influence the 'Lacoon' has had, rather than being about the original work itself. The antique group is not included, but refenced by more recent scuptures by Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon and Eduardo Paolozzi.--from Introduction.
Subject
  • Agesander. > Influence
  • Laocoön (Greek mythological character) > Art > Exhibitions
  • Laocoön (Greek mythological character)
  • Laocoön group (Agesander)
  • Laokoongruppe
  • Geschichte
  • Art
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Kunst
  • Rezeption
Genre/Form
  • works of art.
  • Art
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Art.
  • Œuvres d'art.
Note
  • Published to accompany an exhibition held in Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, 13 May-12 Aug. 2007.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface / Penelope Curtis -- Legacies of the Laocoon: Introduction to the exhibition / Stephen Feeke -- I. Whose Laocoon? The origins of a universal image / Jens Daehner -- II. Laocoon's Snakes: The reception of the group in Renaissance Italy / Madeleine Viljoen -- III. 'French Laocoon': An impossible restoration / Brigitte Bourgeois -- IV. Sculpting Pain and Poetry: Laocoon among the Germans / Ian Balfour -- V. Eighteenth-century Laocoons: Cultural critiques and copies in Britain / Viccy Coltman -- Plates: Installation views of the exhibition by Dave Morgan -- Paolozzi and the Laocoon Group / Daniel Herrmann -- Cragg and the Flaming Line / Jon Wood -- Deacon's Snakes and Ladders / Penelope Curtis.
ISBN
  • 9781905462131
  • 1905462131
OCLC
  • ocn166623879
  • 166623879
  • SCSB-1463790
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library