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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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Was ist Kunst?, Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi
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- Released
- 1993
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- Title
- Was ist Kunst?
- Language
- German
- Authors
- Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi
- Publisher
- Diederichs
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 326
- ISBN10
- 3424010561
- ISBN13
- 9783424010565
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Fiction, Art & Culture, Philosophical Topics, Art, Philosophy, Classics, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Russia, Russian Literature
- 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.