Applied Arts Quotes

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Marshall McLuhan
“This principle of translating non-visual matters of motion and energy into visual terms is the very principle of "applied" knowledge in any time or place.”
Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenbery Galaxy

Marshall McLuhan
“the key to any kind of applied knowledge is the translation of a complex of relations into explicit visual terms. The alphabet itself as applied to the complex of the spoken word translates speech into a visual code that can be uniformly spread and transported. Print had given an intensity to this latent process that was a virtual educational and economic take-off.”
Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenbery Galaxy