Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 147.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 06:54:57 +0100
From: Joel Goldfield <joel@cs.fairfield.edu>
Subject: Re: 17.133 the hammer of art (or computing, for that matter)
The Mayakovsky quotation sounds like a Bolshevik's interpretation
of Stendhal: "Un roman : c'est un miroir qu'on
promène le long d'un chemin" (_Le rouge et le noir_, I, Ch. 13, pub. 1830).
Regards,
Joel Goldfield
Fairfield University
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:21:44 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
With regards to the authorship of "Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it", as requested again in Humanist
17.131, I've turned up the following from Leon Trotsky, "Futurism", in
Literature and Revolution (1924; rpt. New
York, 1957), online at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1924/lit_revo/. (I have
corrected a few typos but not checked this against a hardcopy edition.)
Note that Trotsky himself cites it as something like a proverb, though in
this translation the words are not quite what was asked for.
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