A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The picturesque artists saw the wider range of experience that could be managed by discontinuity and planned irregularity, but they kept to the picture like single perspective. For perspectivism, we substitute cubism, in which the spectator sees at once from inside and outside, from above and below. This insistence on an inclusive image or consciousness is strikingly at variance with the exclusive and specialist focus of the literary mind in its first phase.
“Printing and Social Change” (1959), in McLuhan Unbound (2017), p 21
Year: 1959
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