A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The world of impressionism, associated with painting in the late nineteenth century, found its more extreme form in the pointillisme of Seurat and the refractions of light in the world of Monet and Renoir. The stipple of points of Seurat is close to the present technique of sending pictures by telegraph, and close to the form of the TV image or mosaic made by the scanning finger.
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, p 249
Year: 1964
Chapter: Tactile, Touch
Compiled by William Kuhns
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