If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting. (Marshall McLuhan)

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

Marshall McLuhan

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