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“see” a flat field but “construct” a tactile space, we can
perhaps rid art history of its obsession with space and
bring other achievements into focus, the suggestion of
light and of texture, for instance, or the mastery of
physiognomic expression.
Berkeley’s New Theory of Vision (1709) is now favored by
psychologists of our sense lives. But Berkeley was concerned to
refute Descartes and Newton, who had wholly abstracted the
visual sense from the interaction of the other senses. On the
other hand, the suppression of the visual sense in favor of the
audile-tactile complex, produces the distortions of tribal
society, and of the configuration of jazz and primitive art
imitations which broke upon us with radio, but not just
“because” of radio. (11)