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What Is Art? (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Leo Tolstoy, Marc Lucht (Introduction), Aylmer Maude (Translator)
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By Leo Tolstoy, Marc Lucht (Introduction), Aylmer Maude (Translator)
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. What Is Art? is the result of fifteen years of reflection about the nature and purpose of art. 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 deepest social conscience.

Tolstoy's challenging claims that all good art is related to the...

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