A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

I have found that to consider art as an anti-environment or as a means of perceiving the hidden dimension of the environment, is exceedingly useful. Instead of explaining to people that art is something to be taken seriously because of some inherent superior quality, it makes more sense to point out that art has an indispensable function in cognition, and that men without art strongly tend to be automata, or somnambulists, imprisoned in a dream.
Letter to Claude Bissell, January 28, (1966), in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987) p 333 -334.
Year: 1966
Compiled by William Kuhns
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