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Dark and Light: The Strange Case of the Decline of Illustration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Milton Glaser*
Affiliation:
Milton Glaser Inc, I♡NY, New York
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Abstract

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One can make the case that we have lost the capacity for abstract thought. When we read or listen to the radio, the mind forms images in response to the suggestion. The same thing can be said to occur when an illustration provokes the viewer by its symbolic relationship to reality. Abstraction encourages the mind to bridge the distance from suggestion to reality. Art is the most benign and fundamental way of creating community that our species has discovered.

Type
Research Article
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