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had, by extending the visual power to the uniform organization
of time and space, psychically and socially, conferred the power
of detachment and noninvolvement.
The visual sense when extended by phonetic literacy
fosters the analytic habit of perceiving the single facet in the
life of forms. The visual power enables us to isolate the single
incident in time and space, as in representational art. In visual
representation of a person or an object, a single phase or
moment or aspect is separated from the multitude of known
and felt phases, moments and aspects of the person or object.
By contrast, iconographic art uses the eye as we use our hand
in seeking to create an inclusive image, made up of many
moments, phases, and aspects of the person or thing. Thus
the iconic mode is not visual representation, nor the
specialization of visual stress as defined by viewing from a