What is Art

Autor*innen

• Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi

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• 276 Seiten
• 10 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Kunst
• Kunst & Kultur
• Philosophisches Thema
• Sachliteratur

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During the decades of his world fame as sage & preacher as well as author of War & Peace & Anna Karenina, Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays & polemics on issues of morality, social justice & religion. These culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Although Tolstoy perceived the question of art to be a religious one, he considered & rejected the idea that art reveals & reinvents through beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire & even his own novels are condemned in the course of Tolstoy's impassioned & iconoclastic redefinition of art as a force for good, for the improvement of humankind.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Einband: Paperback