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    It is not the case that Lessing's division of the visual arts is incomplete because it fails to capture an essential difference between painting and sculpture

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    • 1.Painting is concerned strictly with the sense of sight
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    • 2.The aesthetics of sculpture derive primarily from the sense of touch
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    • 3.Lessing treats painting and sculpture as belonging to a unified category without distinguishing their sensory bases
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    • 1.Lessing's Laocoon classifies painting and sculpture together as spatial arts defined by coexisting figures in space.
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    • 2.Herder's Plastik (1778) argues sculpture uniquely addresses haptic cognition, constituting a distinct phenomenological mode irreducible to vision.
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    • 3.If sculpture engages a fundamentally different cognitive faculty than painting, then spatial coexistence alone cannot unify them into a single aesthetic category.
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    • 1.Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology establishes that tactile perception of three-dimensional form generates embodied meaning unavailable to purely visual apprehension.
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    • 2.Sculpture's three-dimensionality invites circumambulation and tactile imagination, producing an aesthetic temporality that undermines Lessing's own spatial/temporal binary.
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