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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 by clicking the cover above.

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A major and provocative work of criticism by the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
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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.

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  • PublisherIndependently published
  • Publication date2016
  • ISBN 10 1519040458
  • ISBN 13 9781519040459
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages224
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