specialized illusion of the third dimension on canvas, cubism 
sets up an interplay of planes and contradiction or dramatic 
conflict of patterns, lights, textures that “drives home the 
message” by involvement. This is held by many to be an 
exercise in painting, not in illusion.

     In other words, cubism, by giving the inside and outside, 
the top, bottom, back, and front and the rest, in two 
dimensions, drops the illusion of perspective in favor of instant 
sensory awareness of the whole. Cubism, by seizing on instant 
total awareness, suddenly announced that the medium is the  
message . Is it not evident that the moment that sequence 
yields to the simultaneous, one is in the world of the structure 
and of configuration? Is that not what has happened in physics 
as in painting, poetry, and in communication? Specialized 
segments of attention have shifted to total field, and we can