Polynices
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Polynices in Greek mythology, son of
Oedipus and Jocasta, and leader of the Seven against Thebes (see
seven); his sister
Antigone was sentenced to death by their uncle Creon for burying his ritually unburied body.
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Is 'Laocoon' a Michelangelo forgery?
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...2005 A scholar has suggested that ''Laocoon,'' a fabled sculpture whose unearthing...a deadly attack on the Trojan priest Laocoon and his two sons by writhing sea snakes dispatched by Athena after Laocoon warned against admitting the Trojan...
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Snake skin ; Five centuries after its rediscovery, can the sculpture of Laocoon shed its history? Tom Lubbock reports on three contemporary artists who have recast ancient Greece in modern form
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/21/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...immediately my father said: 'This is the Laocoon, which Pliny mentions!' Then they dug...they could pull the statue out..." Laocoon: it has four syllables, every vowel...encyclopaedist. It showed the Trojan priest, Laocoon, being killed with his two sons by sea...
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Laocoon's Body and the Aesthetics of Pain: Winckelmann, Lessing, Herder, Moritz, Goethe. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Germanic Review; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...version of the author's dissertation, Laocoon's Body and the Aesthetics of Pain recontextualizes the Laocoon debate with a keen eye for its hidden...series of unclassical counterimages of the Laocoon - "the castrato, the crucified Christ...
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"Toms Laocoon": a newly discovered poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...easy a poet--Tom has sent me some lines on the Laocoon which he had believed was to have been the subject...impression that the subject for 1821 would be the Laocoon rather than Paestum. Laocoon was a Trojan seer and Priest of Apollo who doubly...
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Laocoon in the Water Lilies.(Jackson Pollock)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; The author, who came to know Jackson Pollock in the last years of the troubled painter's life, here recalls the personal and artistic struggles--and the transcendent talent--that made his mercurial friend a legend of romantic modernism. I met Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner in 1952, when Miriam
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TOWARDS A FUNNER LAOCOON.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO MAKE A SCULPTURE? There are certainly more immediate (and less bulky) ways to represent the world these days. Still, at a moment when ambitious creative types might be expected to turn to, say, Web design or software development, and in a place like Los Angeles, whose
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Towards a New Laocoon Henry Moore Insitute, Leeds ; ...and around the country
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/14/2007; 215 words
; Contemporary responses to the antique snake-death statue from Cragg, Paolozzi and Deacon. To 12 Aug
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Towards a New Laocoon Henry Moore Institute, Leeds ; ...and around the country
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/19/2007; 221 words
; A classic reinterpreted: looking at the antique statue of snake- death, and modern versions of it from the 18th century to now. To 12 Aug
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Towards a New Laocoon Henry Moore, Leeds ; ...and around the country
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/23/2007; 220 words
; A classic reinterpreted: contemporary responses to the antique snake-death statue from Cragg, Paolozzi and (magnificently) Deacon. To 12 Aug
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[PROGRAM LISTING NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] & his two sons Satan & Adam.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...purpose of drawing from a cast of the Laocoon group, in preparation for an engraving...produced at least two drawings of the Laocoon, and then an engraving that was, with...work evidently put him in mind of the Laocoon as a possible subject for one or more...
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Laocoon
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Laocoon in Greek mythology, a Trojan priest who, with his two sons, was crushed...Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydurus of Rhodes, depicts the death of Laocoon and his sons, and in allusive use his name often reflects the idea of someone...
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Jacopo Sansovino
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...del Popolo, but he also worked independently restoring antiques and making one of the first copies of the newly excavated Laocoon. Sansovino's earliest major commissions came shortly after he returned to Florence in 1511: the large statue St. James...
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Seers
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...Mopsus, a seer who took part in the quest for the Golden Fleece*, was sometimes said to be a son of Apollo. The seer Laocoon was a priest of Apollo until he broke his vow by fathering children. The best-known seer of Greek mythology was Tiresias...
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Clement Greenberg
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...necessary, he argued, because of the ways in which modern society had debased high art into kitsch. In "Towards a Newer Laocoon" (published in Partisan Reviewin 1940) Greenberg explained the necessity for avant-garde artists to break away from the...
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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...reveals itself in his work on aesthetics. In his Laokoon: oder ü ber die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie (1766; Laocoon: or the limits of painting and poetry), Lessing emphasized the differences between the visual arts and literature. According...
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