Apropos the French request for a note on Wyndham Lewis, I was wondering about doing a short piece on his mis-naming of "the eye" and its world. When Lewis opts for eye values and rationality and civilization, he was at the same time creating and sponsoring, graphically and verbally, art forms that are audile-tactile.
Letter to Sheila Watson (February 17, 1971), in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987) p 424
Year: 1971
Chapter:
Lewis, Wyndham
Compiled by William Kuhns
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