Marshall McLuhan - I think of art, at its most...

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

Canadian Sociologist

Born: Jul 21, 1911

Died: Dec 31, 1980

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Art, Culture, Old, Beginning, Think, Distant, System, Tell, Significant, Most, Dew, Always, Line, Happen, Warning, Early

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