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Arts that employ natural signs are limited in what they c... — Carmelics

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Arts that employ natural signs are limited in what they can express

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1.Natural signs are tied to specific sensory modes
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2.Each art form can only employ the natural signs accessible through its particular sensory medium
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1.Natural signs can trigger cross-modal associations, as Herder argued in 'Sculpture' (1778): touch and vision share expressive content through embodied experience.
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2.If natural signs activate overlapping sensory memories, a single medium can evoke the phenomenal qualities of multiple senses, expanding rather than limiting expressive range.
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1.Lessing's own analysis of the Laocoön concedes that poetry can evoke visual imagery through temporal sequencing of descriptive signs, suggesting natural signs admit of medium-transcending use.
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2.If natural signs can be combined sequentially or metaphorically to construct absent sensory content, the expressive limit belongs to the artist's technique, not to natural signification itself.
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Be this as it may, the main point of Mendelssohn’s distinction is that because its signs are arbitrary and can therefore be associated with any conceivable content, “the poet can express everything of which our soul can have a clear concept,” while the arts that employ natural signs are limited to the expression of those ideas and emotions the natural signs for which can be replicated in their specific media; each of these arts “must content itself with that portion of natural signs that it can

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Perspectives: 3 (1 for, 2 against)
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