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What Is Art? (Penguin Classics)
by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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Publisher Comments:

During the decades of his world fame as sage and preacher as well as author of War and Peace and Anna Karenin, Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Although Tolstoy perceived the question of art to be a religious one, he considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire and even his own novels are condemned in the course of Tolstoy's impassioned and iconoclastic redefinition of art as a force for good, for the progress and improvement of mankind. In his illuminating preface Richard Pevear considers What is Art? in relation to the problems of faith and doubt, and the spiritual anguish and fear of death which preoccupied Tolstoy in the last decades of his life.

Synopsis:

During the decades of his world fame, Tolstoy wrote this series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. He considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, although he perceived the question of art to be a religious one.

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-[xxvi]).
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780140446425
Translator:
Volokhonsky, Larissa
Translator:
Pevear, Richard
Translator:
Volokhonsky, Larissa
Author:
Volokhonsky, Larissa
Author:
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich
Author:
Tolstoy, Leo
Author:
Pevear, Richard
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Location:
London ;
Subject:
General
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Art
Subject:
Criticism
Subject:
Aesthetics
Subject:
Fine Arts
Subject:
Arts
Subject:
Tolstoy, leo, graf, 1828-1910
Subject:
Arts and morals.
Series:
Penguin Classics
Series Volume:
94-4096
Publication Date:
January 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
7.70x5.01x.56 in. .41 lbs.
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