Increasingly these forms [typewriters, cars, airplanes, highways, etc.] have evolved by their own logic toward organic life, as in forms begun as clumsy adaptations of primary experience in the handicrafts. The scientist propelled them abstractly toward the freedom of art and the inner coherence of organisms. Working from the opposite end, the artists of our time have moved from primary impressionism toward abstract art.
“Review of Paul Klee, by Carola Giedion-Welcker”, in Shenandoah, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring, (1953), p 80
Year: 1953
Chapters:
Environment | Evolution
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Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan