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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