What is art?
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0140446427, 9780140446425
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[xxvi], 201 pages ; 20 cm
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Spokane Valley - Adult Area | 700.1 TOLSTOY | On Shelf |
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0140446427, 9780140446425
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvi).
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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 Karenina, 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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Translated from the Russian R. Pevear and L. Volokhonsky.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Tolstoy, L., Pevear, R., & Volokhonsky, L. (1995). What is art? . Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tolstoy, Leo, 1828-1910, Richard Pevear and Larissa. Volokhonsky. 1995. What Is Art?. London ; New York: Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tolstoy, Leo, 1828-1910, Richard Pevear and Larissa. Volokhonsky. What Is Art? London ; New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Tolstoy, L., Pevear, R. and Volokhonsky, L. (1995). What is art? London ; New York: Penguin Books.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Tolstoy, Leo, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky. What Is Art? Penguin Books, 1995.
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