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Taking Hammer to Gill

'Some will always believe that whatever is fashioned by evil hands must itself be evil,' writes Howard Jacobson, as he discusses the necessity to separate art from the artist.

Howard Jacobson deplores the recent vandalising of Eric Gill's sculpture at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Broadcasting House as a failure to understand the meaning of art.

'Art, we go on protesting, is not the artist, but some will always believe that whatever is fashioned by evil hands must itself be evil,' he writes.

'If art and the artist were not distinct, the word art itself would have no meaning. For it denotes manufacture and artifice... not simple equation or reflection.'

Producer: Sheila Cook
Sound Engineer: Peter Bosher
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross

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Sun 28 May 2023 08:48

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