A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

If the Greek means of abstracting and conceptualizing was by logical connection, the abstract art and science of the twentieth century proceeds by the contrary means of pulling out the ”logical” (visual) connections in space and time. This returns the art and philosophy of today to musical form. If the Greek drive to abstraction had been to eliminate the acoustic and musical in favor of visual and logical connectedness, our nonrepresentational and abstract art and science assumes a complementary pattern.
“Alphabet, Mother of Invention” with Robert K. Logan, Et Cetera. 1977, p 377
Year: 1977
↪ Also at #3504, #4876
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