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ear of a whole generation. Hildebrand, too, challenged the
ideals of scientific naturalism by an appeal to the
psychology of perception: if we attempt to analyze our
mental images to discover their primary constituents, we
will find them composed of sense data derived from vision
and from memories of touch and movement. A sphere, for
instance, appears to the eye as a flat disk; it is touch
which informs us of the properties of space and form. Any
attempt on the part of the artist to eliminate this
knowledge is futile, for without it he would not perceive
the world at all. His task is, on the contrary, to
compensate for the absence of movement in his work by
clarifying his image and thus conveying not only visual
sensations but also those memories of touch which
enable us to reconstitute the three-dimensional form in
our minds.