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meditation. In 1472 the Art of War by Volturius was printed at
Verona, with many woodcuts to explain the machinery of war.
But the uses of the woodcut as an aid to contemplation in
Books of Hours, Emblems, and Shepherds’ Calendars continued
for two hundred years on a large scale.
It is relevant to consider that the old prints and
woodcuts, like the modern comic strip and comic book, provide
very little data about any particular moment in time, or aspect
in space, of an object. The viewer, or reader, is compelled to
participate in completing and interpreting the few hints
provided by the bounding lines. Not unlike the character of the
woodcut and the cartoon is the TV image, with its very low
degree of data about objects, and the resulting high degree of
participation by the viewer in order to complete what is only
hinted at in the mosaic mesh of dots. Since the advent of TV,