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The continuity of Greek and medieval art was assured by the
bond between caelatura or engraving and illumination.
The increase of visual stress among the Greeks alienated them
from the primitive art that the electronic age now
reinvents after interiorizing the “unified field”of electric all-
at-onceness.
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art
and speculation.
The Gutenberg Galaxy is concerned to show why alphabetic
man was disposed to desacralize his mode of being.