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Tolstoy: What Is Art?

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Tolstoy: What Is Art?

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Both critics and admirers of Tolstoy's great novel were shocked by the savage iconoclasm of his What is Art? when it appeared in 1898. How was it that this great artist could condemn the works of Shakespeare, Raphael, Beethoven and even his own Anna Karenina as 'false art'? Today's reader still has to grapple with that paradox. The essay still has power to challenge and provoke, for it was written by a giant who took art seriously while western civilisation toyed with it as a mere pastime. For Tolstoy, art was as natural and as necessary for humankind as speech.

In his introduction to this translation, W. Gareth Jones shows how vitally Tolstoy's personality and experience of life were engaged in creating What is Art?, how integral the essay was to his art and teaching, and why it continues to demand a response from us.




Author: L. N. Tolstoy
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Publication Date: Mar 31, 2011
Number of Pages: 176 pages
Binding: Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10: 1853993816
ISBN-13: 9781853993817
 

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