What Is Art? - Paperback
by Leo Tolstoy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1996-01-01Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140446425ISBN-10:140446427UPC:9780140446425Book Category:Literary Collections, Philosophy, ArtBook Subcategory:Essays, Aesthetics, Criticism & TheorySize:7.70 x 5.01 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SCNVK002GA
What Is Art?
This profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion. Considering and rejecting the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, Tolstoy perceives the question of the nature of art to be a religious one. Ultimately, he concludes, art must be a force for good, for the progress and improvement of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780140446425ISBN-10:140446427UPC:9780140446425Book Category:Literary Collections, Philosophy, ArtBook Subcategory:Essays, Aesthetics, Criticism & TheorySize:7.70 x 5.01 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SCNVK002GA
Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. In...
Publisher: Penguin Group
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Revised Edition
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Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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