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    It is not the case that Lessing's account of the visual arts is deficient.

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    • Lessing fails to explain why beauty must be the first law of the visual arts.
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    • 1.Lessing derives the law of beauty from Greek sculpture alone, committing the genetic fallacy of treating one historical tradition as universal aesthetic law.
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    • 2.Hegel's Aesthetics demonstrates that different art forms embody distinct spiritual content across historical epochs, undermining any single transhistorical law for visual media.
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    • 3.A theory that cannot accommodate the sublime, the ugly, or the grotesque as legitimate visual categories—as Rosenkranz's 'Aesthetics of Ugliness' establishes—is systematically incomplete.
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    • 1.Lessing restricts visual art to depicting bodies in space, yet Goya's 'Saturn Devouring His Son' achieves its power through temporal narrative tension.
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    • 2.If a canonical work violates Lessing's spatial-only thesis without aesthetic failure, his account lacks descriptive adequacy as a theory of visual art.
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