Television is a tranquil and relatively individual 
medium, fostering many book values, indirectly. I 
wish I had the time to go into detail, but as an 
example, the TV image unlike the film image 
constitutes you not the camera, but the screen. It 
is of low visual definition, and the image effected by 
luminous spots has a high tactual impact like 
contour in prints and engravings giving the TV 
image a strong sculptural quality, which is also to 
say a strong auditory quality . . . Sculpture is 
perched on the frontiers of sight and sound, and is 
a necessary phase prior to the development of 
writing in any society. Our own re-conquest of the 
tactual, the kinesthetic and the sculptural in the