It is not hard to explain this sensuous revolution to 
painters and sculptors, for they have been striving, ever since 
Cézanne abandoned perspective illusion in favor of structure in 
painting, to bring about the very change that TV has now 
effected on a fantastic scale. TV is the Bauhaus program of 
design and living, or the Montessori educational strategy, given 
total technological extension and commercial sponsorship. The 
aggressive lunge of artistic strategy for the remaking of 
Western man has, via TV, become a vulgar sprawl and an 
overwhelming splurge in American life.

     It would be impossible to exaggerate the degree to which 
this image has disposed America to European modes of sense 
and sensibility. America is now Europeanizing as furiously as 
Europe is Americanizing. Europe, during the Second War, 
developed much of the industrial technology needed for its first