What is Art? (Roads Classics) - Softcover

Leo Tolstoy

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9781909399259: What is Art? (Roads Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1909399256 ISBN 13: 9781909399259

Publisher: Roads Publishing, 2014

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What is Art?

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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.

About the Author:

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born in 1828, in the Tula province of Russia, into a family of Russian nobility. In the early 1850s, he spent some time in the army, where he began to write, and following travels in Eu�rope he made a dramatic u-turn to become a spiritual anarchist. Most fa�mous for the epic tomes Anna Karenina and War and Peace, he was also a philosophical and political writer of significant scope and influence.

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