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''Drawing Hands'' is a lithograph by the
''Drawing Hands'' is a lithograph by the Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
artist M. C. Escher first printed in January 1948. It depicts a sheet of paper, out of which two hands rise, in the paradoxical
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically u ...
act of drawing one another into existence. This is one of the most obvious examples of Escher's common use of paradox.
It is referenced in the book '' Gödel, Escher, Bach'', by Douglas Hofstadter, who calls it an example of a strange loop. It is used in ''Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
''Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs'' (''SICP'') is a computer science textbook by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. It is known as the "Wizard Book" in ha ...
'' by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
Gerald Jay Sussman (born February 8, 1947) is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his S.B. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from MIT in 1968 and 1973 respectively. H ...
as an allegory for the eval
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and apply functions of programming language interpreters in computer science
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, which feed each other.
''Drawing Hands'' has been referenced and copied many times by artists in different ways. In tech culture, robot hands draw or build each other, or a human hand and robot hand draw each other.
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* {{printmaking-stub 1948 paintings Works by M. C. Escher