Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08438_Field_TCGG T203.txt

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The increase of visual stress among the Greeks alienated them
from the primitive art that the electronic age now reinvents
after interiorizing the unified field of electric all-at-onceness.

*     The prevalence of the art of the celator,  in a word, is a cue
and a key to the tactile mode of sensibility as it is interwoven
with an incipient stage of literacy, whether in Greece, Rome, or
in the flat illumination of the Middle Ages.

     Seltman, like most of his contemporaries, approaches
Greek art, not in a perspective, but as a configuration or a
mosaic of items in a field. Co-existence and interplay among
the figures in the flat field create a multi-levelled and multi-
sensuous awareness. This mode of approach tends to partake
of the character of auditory, inclusive, and unenclosed space,
as Georg von Békésy has shown in his Experiments in Hearing .