The representation of an instant: Lessing and Ernst Gombrich’s pictographic method

Although the representation of a single instant as a limitation to figurative arts in Lessing’s Laokoon has been considered by Ernst Gombrich as the origin of a fallacious conception of art, this article shows the affinity between the idea of “pictographic method” displayed by the Austrian historian...

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Main Author: Ignacio Uribe Martínez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2012-03-01
Series:Arte, Individuo y Sociedad
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARIS/article/view/38045