A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Here is a major instance of how a by-product of industrial imagination, a genuine agency of contemporary folklore, led to radical artistic developments. To the alerted eye, the front page of a newspaper is a superficial chaos which can lead the mind to attend to cosmic harmonies of a very high order. Yet when these harmonies are more sharply stylized by a Picasso or a Joyce, they seem to give offense to the very people who should appreciate them most.
The Mechanical Bride (1951), p 4
Year: 1951
Chapters: Harmony | Living Unity | News
↪ Also at #2603, #3581
Compiled by William Kuhns
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