8

personally but in principle there is no difference between the dictates of a despot and the conventions of even the most liberal social order. p. 46-47

They are anti-individualistic, static and conventional, because they are the forms of expression of an outlook on life, for which descent, class, membership of a clan or group represents a higher degree of reality than the character of the particular individual, and the abstract rules of conduct and the moral code are much more directly in evidence than whatever the individual may feel, think or will. All the good things and the charms of life are connected, for the privileged members of this society, with their separation from the other classes, and all the maxims which they follow

9

assume more or less the character of rules of decorum and etiquette. ... one does not allow oneself to be portrayed as one really is, but according to how one must appear to conform with certain hallowed conventions, remote from reality and the present time. p. 54

In the frontal representation of the human figure, the forward turning of the upper part of the human body is the expression of a definite and direct relationship to the onlooker. Paleolithic art, in which no kind of notice is taken of the public, also knows nothing of frontality; its illusionism is merely another form of its ignoring the onlooker. p. 57