Critical Communication  

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"It seems reasonable to suppose that the critic is thinking of another quality, no idea of which is transmitted to us by his language, which he sees and which by his use of language he gets us to see. This quality is, of course, a wavelike contour."--“Critical Communication” (1949) by Arnold Isenberg


"Like the contour of a violently rising and falling wave is the outline of the four illuminated figures in the foreground: steeply upwards and downwards about the grey monk on the left, in mutually inclined curves about the yellow of the two saints, and again steeply upwards and downwards about ... the priest on the right."--Ludwig Goldscheider's 1949 ekphrasis of El Greco's The Burial of the Count of Orgaz


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Critical Communication” (The Philosophical Review 58, no. 4 (1949): 341) is an essay by Arnold Isenberg.

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