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on the intense separation of the visual from the other senses.
There is here no question of values or preferences. It is
necessary, however, for any other kind of understanding to
know why “primitive” drawing is two-dimensional, whereas the
drawing and painting of literate man tends towards
perspective. Without this knowledge we cannot grasp why men
ever ceased to be “primitive” or audile-tactile in their sense
bias. Nor could we ever understand why men have “since
Cézanne” abandoned the visual in favor of the audile-tactile
modes of awareness and of organization of experience. This
matter clarified, we can much more easily approach the role of
alphabet and of printing in giving a dominant role to the visual
sense in language and art and in the entire range of social and
of political life. For until men have upgraded the visual
component communities know only a tribal structure. The