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What Is Art?

By Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell
Unabridged — 6 hours, 32 minutes
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By Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell
Unabridged — 6 hours, 32 minutes
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What Is Art? is the result of fifteen years' reflection on the nature and purpose of art.

Tolstoy claims that all good art is related to the authentic life of the broader community and that the aesthetic value of a work of art is not independent of its moral content. The book is noteworthy not only for its famous iconoclasm and compelling attacks on the aestheticist notion of “art for art's sake” but even more for its wit, its lucid and beautiful prose, and its sincere expression of the deep...