Zero Knowledge Tolstoyan Art

Contents

• Tolstoyan art

• Zero-knowledge proof

• A marriage of (or casual relationship between) the two

• Conclusion

In this post I hope to prove to you (get it 😉) in rather uncertain terms, that:

Tolstoyan art has the structure of a zero knowledge proof.

Currently, this statement is a big nothing-burger, so first we will discuss the high level ideas of Tolstoyan art and zero knowledge proofs.

Tolstoyan art

In Tolstoy’s 1897 book, what is art? 1, he discusses what it means for some piece of work to be art. In chapter V, he states that the activity of art is