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Martha’s recording contains yet other segments that are of direct interest to the semiotician. There is one scene, for instance, where Cheryl takes out a photograph of a sculpture that she had made, showing it proudly to her amorous partner. Ted looks at it with admiration, remarking, “How beautiful, Cheryl. I didn’t know you were so talented.” “I have always loved to draw and sculpt,” she responds. “For me art is indistinguishable from life, as the saying goes.” The semiotician would agree completely.
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
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Susanne K. Langer, Problems of Art (New York: Scribner’s, 1957).
Greil Marcus, Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession (New York: Anchor Books, 1991).
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Danesi, M. (2008). Art Is Indistinguishable from Life. In: Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-61278-5_9
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