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upon information conveyed by exactly repeatable visual or
pictorial statements.
This means that, far from being merely minor works
of art, prints are among the most important and powerful
tools of modern life and thought. Certainly we cannot
hope to realize their actual role unless we get away from
the snobbery of modern print collecting notions and
definitions and begin to think of them as exactly
repeatable pictorial statements or communications,
without regard to the accident of rarity or what for the
moment we may regard as aesthetic merit. We must look
at them from the point of view of general ideas and
particular functions, and, especially, we must think about
the limitations which their techniques have imposed on
them as conveyors of information and on us as receivers
of that information.