TW> "In 1913, Pound wrote: 'If I were a painter...I might found a new school TW> of painting, of non-representative painting, a painting that would speak TW> only by arrangements of color.' " Do you think it was much prophetic by that time? You can check the context of these lines: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/pound/metro.htm http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem1657.html What I like about Pound is his notion of "the curse of provincialism". Nikolay