Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Re: Who is Bertolt Brecht? and Why We Should Care in our Dark Times | Anthony Squiers | Culture Matters

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> On Jul 21, 2019, at 12:23 AM, Rebecca Ruth Gould via Marxism 
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> Thanks for this and to Kevin Lindemann for the original post. I tried to
> find the source for the following quote, attributed to Brecht in the
> linked-to article:  "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer
> with which to shape it." I have not been able to identify any published
> source and some have described the quote as apocryphal. Others have
> attributed it to Mayakovsky. If anyone knows more, please let me know.
> Thanks!


Some information here: 
https://www.philipchircop.com/post/8473310418/art-is-not-a-mirror-held-up-to-reality-but-a

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Mistakenly attributed to Vladimir Mayakovsky in The Political Psyche (1993) by 
Andrew Samuels, p. 9; mistakenly attributed to Brecht in Paulo Freire : A 
Critical Encounter (1993) by Peter McLaren and Peter Leonard, p. 80; variant 
translation: "Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which 
to shape it.”

First recorded in Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution (1924; edited by 
William Keach (2005), Ch. 4: Futurism, p. 120): "Art, it is said, is not a 
mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.”


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Thanks for this and to Kevin Lindemann for the original post. I tried to
find the source for the following quote, attributed to Brecht in the
linked-to article:  "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer
with which to shape it." I have not been able to identify any published
source and some have described the quote as apocryphal. Others have
attributed it to Mayakovsky. If anyone knows more, please let me know.
Thanks!

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> Anyone interested, should read this study:
> Peter Brooker, "Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics"
> https://is.gd/aRYouz
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> Truly the best I've read on Brecht in way of grasping the engineered
> relationship between cultural production and consciousness. In
> Brooker's sense -- not that he argued it -- Brecht's approach is
> closer to 'The Pedagogy of the Oppressed' (Paulo Freire) than simple
> didacticism.
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Anyone interested, should read this study:
Peter Brooker, "Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics"
https://is.gd/aRYouz

Truly the best I've read on Brecht in way of grasping the engineered
relationship between cultural production and consciousness. In
Brooker's sense -- not that he argued it -- Brecht's approach is
closer to 'The Pedagogy of the Oppressed' (Paulo Freire) than simple
didacticism.

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