An abstracted vision From: Southwest Art | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright Sabot Publishing, Inc. Apr 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

EDITOR'S LETTER

Over the past few months I've been reading, intermittently, from The Creators, an 800-- page book by historian and Pulitzer Prize-- winner Daniel Boorstin. Boorstin begins the chapter titled "Vistas from a Restless Self" with a compelling summary of traditions in two-- dimensional art: "For centuries Western vision had been confined by two ways of looking. The first was the Window-the perspective view from a single point, which the artist invited the viewer to share. The second was the ancient ideal of Beauty-the quality that `pleasurably exalts the mind or senses,' and ...

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