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During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Impassioned and iconoclastic, this powerfully influential... Read Full Overview

While Tolstoy may be best remembered as the talented Russian author of such monumentally great works as "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", he also wrote prolifically in essay format on various subjects. In this volume Tolstoy turns his attention to the study of aesthetics... Read Full Overview

" Qu es el arte?", es un texto en donde Tolstoi despliega todo su armamento literario, po tico, espiritual, para definir lo que, a su parecer, es el arte. Un texto extenso, de hecho, para ser le do en la pantalla del monitor. Es dif cil hallarlo editado, al menos aqu en Argentina,... Read Full Overview

Leo Tolstoy's fascinating classic treatise on art is as relevant today as it was over one hundred years ago. Highly-readable, often witty, anyone with an interest in the nature of art and its connection to what it is to be human will find this book a treat.Be sure to LOOK INSIDE... Read Full Overview

During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Impassioned and iconoclastic, this powerfully influential... Read Full Overview

Both critics and admirers of Tolstoy's great novel were shocked by the savage iconoclasm of his What is Art? when it appeared in 1898. How was it that this great artist could condemn the works of Shakespeare, Raphael, Beethoven and even his own Anna Karenina as 'false art'? Today's... Read Full Overview

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The climax of a number of articles and polemics on morality, social justice, and religion is this sophisticated investigation of the essence of art. Tolstoy considers and rejects the notion that beauty may unveil and reinvent, seeing the question of the nature of art as a... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

The climax of a number of articles and polemics on morality, social justice, and religion is this sophisticated investigation of the essence of art. Tolstoy considers and rejects the notion that beauty may unveil and reinvent, seeing the question of the nature of art as a... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Leo Tolstoy is one of the most celebrated novelists of all time. As well as writing literary classics such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace he was also the author of some hugely influential critical and philosophical works. First published in 1898 his book... Read Full Overview

What Is Art? is the result of fifteen years' reflection on the nature and purpose of art.

Tolstoy claims that all good art is related to the authentic life of the broader community and that the aesthetic value of a work of art is not independent of its moral content... Read Full Overview