In other words, we must approach - and fortunately a beginning has already been made - Oceanic or African
myths, symbols and rites with the
same respect and the
same desire to learn that hitherto we have devoted to the
cultural creations of the West».
We should grasp it as belonging (albeit sometimes in shifting or barely legible relationships) to the
same continuum of experience and knowledge - the episteme - that encompassed an array of
cultural changes,
myths, and motifs or the sixties... yet nor was Color Field art shaped in a vacuum by artist adrift from external reality.