I recommend a dramatic reversal of figure and ground. At the center of the image called American Education, I propose three dominant figures: the kinds of Persons we value; the kinds of Workers we ...

If you don't comprehend that – that making things seem normal and/or astonishing is a figure-ground reversal, it's a sleight-of-hand, it's something to be manipulated in the face of an audience?

He describes the effect as a figure-ground reversal: where in the older structure the mass of the building is the ground and the windows and ornament act as figure, in the new wing the mass is the ...

The third kind, the kind I use most in my life, is figure-ground reversal. And that says that the solution to the problem is not going to be found in the foreground, it’s going to be found in ...