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    It is not the case that Resemblance alone is not the source of pleasure in aesthetic imitation, because resemblance can be produced by means far simpler than the full range of artistic faculties

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    • 1.Resemblance is easily produced by means far less complex than the faculties that constitute artistry
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    • 2.If mere resemblance were the goal of painting, a painter could simply carry a mirror
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    • 3.Artistry involves a complexity and admirable set of faculties beyond what is required for mere resemblance
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    • 1.Kant's analysis in the Critique of Judgment distinguishes free beauty from merely agreeable sensation, locating aesthetic value in purposive form rather than correspondence to an object.
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    • 2.If resemblance were the source of aesthetic pleasure, representations of ugly or morally repugnant objects would yield no pleasure, yet Aristotle notes in the Poetics that we delight in accurate depictions of things we would find painful to view in reality.
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    • 3.This pleasure in representation of the disagreeable can only be explained by something other than resemblance itself—namely, the recognition of skilled intentional transformation.
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    • 1.Lessing's Laocoon establishes that artistic media impose constraints and possibilities irreducible to mirroring reality, so artistic value emerges from how a medium is navigated, not from fidelity to appearance.
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    • 2.Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art demonstrates that resemblance is neither necessary nor sufficient for representation, since any two objects resemble each other in some respect while denotation depends on learned symbolic systems.
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    • 3.Because resemblance is a symmetric and ubiquitous relation while aesthetic appreciation is selective and asymmetric, resemblance cannot be the operative source of distinctively aesthetic pleasure.
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