Towards a Newer Laocoon

Target entity: Towards a Newer Laocoon
Context triple: [Clement Greenberg, notableWork, Towards a Newer Laocoon]

• A. The New Laokoon
  The New Laokoon is a critical work by Irving Babbitt that examines the relationship between literature and the other arts, arguing for classical restraint and moral purpose in artistic expression.
• B. "How to Read Greek Sculpture"
  "How to Read Greek Sculpture" is an art-historical guide by curator and scholar Seán Hemingway that introduces readers to the styles, meanings, and cultural context of ancient Greek sculpture.
• C. Laokoon
  Laokoon is an influential 1766 aesthetic treatise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing that compares the expressive limits and possibilities of painting and poetry.
• D. Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst
  Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst is an influential 18th-century aesthetic treatise that helped found modern art history by championing the ideals of classical Greek art.
• E. Discourses on Art
  Discourses on Art is a series of influential lectures by Sir Joshua Reynolds that helped shape 18th-century academic art theory and aesthetics.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Towards a Newer Laocoon
Target entity description: "Towards a Newer Laocoon" is a seminal 1940 essay by art critic Clement Greenberg that argues for the formal purity and medium-specificity of modernist painting.

• A. The New Laokoon
  The New Laokoon is a critical work by Irving Babbitt that examines the relationship between literature and the other arts, arguing for classical restraint and moral purpose in artistic expression.
• B. "How to Read Greek Sculpture"
  "How to Read Greek Sculpture" is an art-historical guide by curator and scholar Seán Hemingway that introduces readers to the styles, meanings, and cultural context of ancient Greek sculpture.
• C. Laokoon
  Laokoon is an influential 1766 aesthetic treatise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing that compares the expressive limits and possibilities of painting and poetry.
• D. Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst
  Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst is an influential 18th-century aesthetic treatise that helped found modern art history by championing the ideals of classical Greek art.
• E. Discourses on Art
  Discourses on Art is a series of influential lectures by Sir Joshua Reynolds that helped shape 18th-century academic art theory and aesthetics.
• F. None of above. chosen