A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The function of new art is to reorganize perception and impulse. So that an art that does not disturb and annoy, at first, is meaningless.
“A Victorian Proto-Martyr of the Arts.” Review of A Hopkins Reader, ed., John Pick], in Commonweal, Vol. 58, No. 13,July 3, (1953), 326-327
Quote #464
Year: 1953
Chapter: Art, Artists
Compiled by William Kuhns
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