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evidence which Kepes provides in The Language of Vision is very
much needed. In fact, the two-dimensional is the opposite of
inert, as Georg von Békésy discovered in the study of hearing.
For dynamic simultaneity is the effect of the two-dimensional,
and inert homogeneity the effect of three-dimensionality. Kepes
explains (p. 96):
Early medieval painters often repeated the main figure
many times in the same picture. Their purpose was to
represent all possible relationships that affected him, and
they recognized this could be done only by a
simultaneous description of various actions. This
connectedness in meaning, rather than the mechanical
logic of geometrical optics, is the essential task of
representation.