34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE

34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE

Everything could be a dream.

The free-thinkers seem to be saying that there is no transcendence, that there is nothing but Nature.

34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE
Feb 01, 2024
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LAOCOON BY MICHAEL HOLDER 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 118

It seems he had a bone to pick with Winckelmann. Can, or should, great suffering and pain be rendered explicitly in art? Can a scream be accurately depicted in marble or paint without destroying the possibility, and indeed, the requirement, that art represent beauty? Is the hideousness of sufferin…

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