less participation in the work of the image.

     Again, it has been found that nonliterates do not know 
how to fix their eyes, as Westerners do, a few feet in front of 
the movie screen, or some distance in front of a photo. The 
result is that they move their eyes over photo or screen as they 
might their hands. It is this same habit of using the eyes as 
hands that makes European men so “sexy” to American 
women. Only an extremely literate and abstract society learns 
to fix the eyes, as we must learn to do in reading the printed 
page. For those who thus fix their eyes, perspective results. 
There is great subtlety and synesthesia in native art, but no 
perspective. The old belief that everybody really saw in 
perspective, but only that Renaissance painters had learned 
how to paint it, is erroneous. Our own first TV generation is 
rapidly losing this habit of visual perspective as a sensory