[Ads-l] "All art is propaganda."
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Nov 19 12:59:51 UTC 2014
And I know what I like.
JL
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:
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> On Nov 18, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> > This website, which claims to be "(t)he only genuine source of Marx =
> quotes
> > on the internet, in which every quote is sourced by a link to the =
> original
> > context,"
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> Hmmm. Doesn't seem to include any of my favorites--"I refuse to join =
> any club that would accept me as a member" or "Outside of a dog, a book =
> is man's best friend; inside a dog it's too dark to read" or, of course, =
> "I shot an elephant in my pajamas; how he got into my pajamas I'll never =
> know." =20
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> And on the topic of art and propaganda, or at least art: "Art is art. =
> Still, on the other hand, water is water."
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> LH
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> > has the following:
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> > https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/quotes/
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> > When communist artisans associate with one another, theory, =
> propaganda,
> > etc., is their first end. But at the same time, as a result of this
> > association, they acquire a new need =97 the need for society =97 and =
> what
> > appears as a means becomes an end. ... the brotherhood of man is no =
> mere
> > phrase with them, but a fact of life, and the nobility of man shines =
> upon
> > us from their work-hardened bodies.
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> > Marx, Human Needs & the division of Labour (1844)
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> > DanG
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> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Jonathan Lighter =
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> >> Subject: Re: "All art is propaganda."
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> >> Surely there is a passage in Marx to similar effect, but where?
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> >> JL
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> >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
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> >>> Poster: Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
> >>> Subject: Re: "All art is propaganda."
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> >>> No editor is mentioned in February or March. W. B. McCormick writes
> >> "Notes
> >>> of the
> >>> Studies and Galleries" in March 1918 though. I agree there is no =
> clear
> >>> attribution.
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> >>> DanG
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> >>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:50 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
> >>> adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>>> Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> >>>>> So do we credit the phrase to Guy Pene du Bois?
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> >>>> The statement in 1918 might be labeled a precursor or an actual
> >>>> instance of the saying. Entries on QI sometimes trace evolving =
> sayings
> >>>> without definitive demarcations.
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> >>>> As to who wrote it. That's an excellent hypothesis, Dan. Guy Pene =
> du
> >>>> Bois was the editor of Arts & Decoration and wrote many signed
> >>>> articles. His initials G.P.B are appended to the column "Notes of =
> the
> >>>> Studies and Galleries" for January 1918
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> >>>> But I do not see any name clearly attached to the "Notes of the
> >>>> Studies and Galleries" column of February 1918 that included the
> >>>> target quotation.
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> >>>> Garson
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> >>>>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:02 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
> >>>>> adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>>>>> Here is a precursor to Upton Sinclair's statement in 1918 =
> expressed
> >>>>>> tentatively instead of emphatically.
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> >>>>>> Issue Date: February 1918
> >>>>>> Periodical: Arts & Decoration
> >>>>>> Article: Notes of the Studies and Galleries,
> >>>>>> Star Page 165, Quote Page 165,
> >>>>>> Publisher: Dexter W. Hewitt at Adam Budge, Inc.
> >>>>>> Database: Google Books Full View
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=3DhhbnAAAAMAAJ&q=3D%22if+all+art%22#v=3Ds=
> nippet&
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> >>>>>> [Begin excerpt]
> >>>>>> Yet we sometimes wonder if all art is not propaganda--political =
> or
> >>>>>> spiritual and always egotistic.
> >>>>>> [End excerpt]
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> >>>>>> Garson
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> >>>>>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> >>>>>> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>>>>>> That occurred to me too, but I don't see a ref. in GB or Hathi.
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> >>>>>>> Prob. Marx said something more prolix.
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> >>>>>>> JL
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> >>>>>>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net>
> >>>> wrote:
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> >>>>>>>> At 11/15/2014 04:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >>>>>>>>> Not in YBQ, but it gets 30,000 raw Googlits. I recently read =
> it
> >>> in
> >>>> a
> >>>>>>>> movie
> >>>>>>>>> review.
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> >>>>>>>>> 1925 Upton Sinclair _Mammonart_ (Pasadena: pub. by the author)
> >> 9:
> >>>> All
> >>>>>> art
> >>>>>>>>> is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda;
> >>>> sometimes
> >>>>>>>>> unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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> >>>>>>>>> Rather a dilute meaning of "propaganda," wouldn't you say? The
> >>>> relevant
> >>>>>>>> OED
> >>>>>>>>> def. is
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> >>>>>>>>> "The systematic dissemination of information, esp. in a biased
> >> or
> >>>>>>>>> misleading way, in order to promote a political cause or point
> >> of
> >>>> view.
> >>>>>>>>> Also: information disseminated in this way; the means or media
> >> by
> >>>> which
> >>>>>>>>> such ideas are disseminated."
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> >>>>>>>>> Sinclair seems to mean rather that all art exerts some =
> influence
> >>> on
> >>>>>>>>> beliefs, willy-nilly. As dothose who repeat the assertion =
> (usu.
> >>>>>> without
> >>>>>>>>> attribution).
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> >>>>>>>> Sinclair was a utopian, left-wing, progressive Democrat,
> >> Socialist,
> >>>>>>>> Wobbly-supporting pinko, wasn't he? "All art is propaganda" is
> >>>>>>>> something I could imagine said by Karl Marx.
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> >>>>>>>> Joel
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> >>>>>>>>> Factoid: Wackipedia calls the book-length essay _Mammonart_ a
> >>>> "novel."
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> >>>>>>>>> JL
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