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image as a plastic experience had not been due to
represented meaningful signs as such but rather to the
prevailing representation-concept which was static and
limited, and consequently in contradiction to the dynamic
plastic nature of the visual experience. The structure of
meaning had been based upon the same conception
which generated the fixed point of view of space
representation, linear perspective and modelling by
shading.
The involuntary and subliminal character of this private or
“fixed point of view” depends on the isolation of the visual
factor in experience. (36) It is upon this “fixed point of view”
that the triumphs and destructions of the Gutenberg era will be
made. Since there is widespread misunderstanding about the
flat, two-dimensional, mosaic form in art and experience, the