“Art is whatever you can get away with.”

— Marshall McLuhan, book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)
Source: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

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Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor … 1911–1980

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