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Old 04-18-2010, 06:19 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
A translation loses all the "impact" of it.
Or imited like Catullo did with beautiful results.

I do not see anybody now capable of that creative ability for casting sublime art in a strict geometric form. The last ones were in Music with Bach and his friends. After that, beautiful results but the form became too much loose to maintain the wonderful equilibrium.

They tried hard. The cubist, the Russian structuralists and others in the visuals.

May be the ballet still reaches it. But it is more a performance than anything else.
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