A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Pop art serves to remind us, however, that we have fashioned for ourselves a world of artifacts and images that are intended not to train perceptions or awareness but to be merged with them as the primitive man merges with his environment.
“The Relation of Environment to Anti-Environment,” The University of Windsor Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, (1966), p 2, reprinted in Through the Vanishing Point with Harley Parker (1968), p 243 , ,and McLuhan Unbound #4, (2017),p 8
Year: 1966
Chapter: Art, Artists
Compiled by William Kuhns
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