So that, if the book page could imitate visual perspective as in Renaissance painting, setting facts and concepts in proportions that reproduced the optical image of the three-dimensional object-world, the uninhibited world of the press and modern advertising abandoned such realistic proprieties in favor of weighting news and commercial objects by every dynamic and structural device of size and colour bringing words and pictures back into a plastic and meaningful connection.
“Culture without Literacy”, in Explorations #1, December (1953), p 125 reprinted in Essential McLuhan, (1995), p 310, additional reprint in Media Research Technology, Art and Communication (1997), p 135. and McLuhan Unbound #6, (2017)
Year: 1953
Chapter:
News
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan