A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Well, the simple fact of the matter is the whole world is an East/West happening, and while the Western world is going Oriental, the Oriental world is going Western. This has been going on for a century, and so what could be a bigger East/West happening than that? See, all the Western artists have gone Oriental since Baudelaire, and all the painters, all abstract art is Oriental art.
An interview from 1967 by Peter Mansaram, first published in Alexander Kuskis’s blog The McLuhan Galaxy
Year: 1967
↪ Also at #2164, #2446, #6116
Compiled by William Kuhns
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