{The Letter and the Spirit [continued]}[1st March 1988]

[Redbook5:26][19880301:2152d]{The Letter and the Spirit [continued]}[1st March 1988]

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Certainly, and sadly, you are least likely to find religious subjects in the visual arts today, unless commissioned; perhaps slightly less [un]likely in creative literature,* at least by implication; and more likely (I have the impression) in musical compositions, even now. Religious themes explode the notion that form and content (or at least substance) are indistinguishable. The belief that (to adapt a famous legal dictum of the 19^th century about the legal status of husband and wife)** in Art, form and content are one,*** and that one is form**** – is characteristic of Separation.

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But where does this leave the other side of the Circle?

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*[See last previous entry, 2^nd para.; & cf. [Redbook5:11-12][19880212:1155c]{Multiple Viewpoints and Single Minds [continued (3)]}[12^th February 1988], 12.]

**[It seems possible that this is a more recent academic description of the legal situation, rather than a judicial or other pronouncement in court. <20171006>]

***The first bit is OK (as paradox);

****the second is the error. <891006>

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