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During the decades of his world fame as sage & preacher as well as author of War & Peace & Anna Karenina, Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays & polemics on issues of morality, social justice & religion. These culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Although Tolstoy perceived the question of art to be a religious one, he considered & rejected the idea that art reveals & reinvents through beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire & even his own novels are condemned in the course of Tolstoy's impassioned & iconoclastic redefinition of art as a force for good, for the improvement of humankind.
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What is Art, Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi
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- Title
- What is Art
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi
- Publisher
- Creative Media Partners, LLC
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN13
- 9781015402836
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, True Stories, Philosophical Topics, Art, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Russia, Russian Literature
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- During the decades of his world fame as sage & preacher as well as author of War & Peace & Anna Karenina, Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays & polemics on issues of morality, social justice & religion. These culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Although Tolstoy perceived the question of art to be a religious one, he considered & rejected the idea that art reveals & reinvents through beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire & even his own novels are condemned in the course of Tolstoy's impassioned & iconoclastic redefinition of art as a force for good, for the improvement of humankind.