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by visual specialization. For the real “abstract” art is that of
realism and naturalism based on a separation of the visual
faculty from the interplay of the other senses. So-called
abstract art is, in fact, the result of much sense interplay with
varying dominance of ear and touch. I would suggest that
“touch” is not so much a separate sense as the very interplay
of the senses. That is why it recedes in significance as the
visual faculty is given separate and abstract intensity.
In a very interesting section from his forthcoming book on the
beginnings of art printed in Explorations in Communication (pp.
71­89), Giedion explains the space awareness of the cave
painters:
No traces of human dwellings have been found in
the interior of the caverns. These were holy places in