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Non-representational art clarified the structural laws of
the plastic image. It re-established the image in its
original role as a dynamic experience based upon the
properties of the senses and their plastic organization.
But it threw overboard the meaningful signs of the visual
relationships.
That is, the explicit visual linking of components in a
composition, verbal or non-verbal, began to fascinate and
compel most minds in the later fifteenth century. Kepes
specifies this explicit visual linking as “literary” and as the
immediate occasion of the dissociation of the interplay of the
various properties of all the senses. He adds (p. 200):
The image was ‘purified’. But this purification overlooked
the fact that the distortion and disintegration of the