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What Is Art? (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 1996
by Tolstoy, Leo
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- Title What Is Art? (Penguin Classics)
- Author Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding Paperback
- Edition International Ed
- Condition New
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, London, United Kingdom
- Date 1996-01-01
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ00GNA7_ns
- ISBN 9780140446425 / 0140446427
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.01 x 0.56 in (19.56 x 12.73 x 1.42 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Arts - Philosophy, Arts and morals
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96140922
- Dewey Decimal Code 700.1
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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.