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Illustration: Laocoön and His Sons ("Clamores horrendos" detail), photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen.
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Illustration: Laocoön and His Sons ("Clamores horrendos" detail), photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen.

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"Towards a Newer Laocoon" is an essay by Clement Greenberg first published in the Partisan Review of 1940. The title references "Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry" (1766) by Lessing and "The New Laokoön" (1910) by Irving Babbitt.

"Purity in art consists in the acceptance, willing acceptance, of the limitations of the medium of the specific art"


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