What Is Art?graf Leo Tolstoy
What Is Art?
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Original author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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"What Is Art?" by graf Leo Tolstoy is a philosophical work completed in 1897. Tolstoy questions the very nature of art, rejecting beauty-based definitions to propose that art is anything communicating emotion—from jokes to church services. Yet his Christian moralism leads him to dismiss celebrated masters like Beethoven, Wagner, and Shakespeare, along with most of his own writings. He condemns the obscurity and artificiality of contemporary art, insisting that true art must be accessible to all and serve humanity's moral evolution by evoking brotherhood and love.
What Is Art?, by graf Leo Tolstoy. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #64908.
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31 Chapters
- 1.Front Matter9,789 words
- 2.Chapter I450 words
- 3.Chapter XX2,385 words
- 4.Chapter II3,133 words
- 5.Chapter III5,081 words
- 6.Chapter IV2,379 words
- 7.Chapter V2,128 words
- 8.Chapter VI2,414 words
- 9.Chapter VII1,563 words
- 10.Chapter VIII1,984 words
- 11.Chapter IX1,831 words
- 12.Chapter X6,834 words
- 13.Chapter XI3,719 words
- 14.Chapter XII2,804 words
- 15.Chapter XIII2,578 words
- 16.Act II: , night. Afterwards dawn. In general the whole piece is crammed2,139 words
- 17.Chapter XIV2,950 words
- 18.Chapter XV1,228 words
- 19.Chapter XVI6,215 words
- 20.Chapter XVII3,597 words
- 21.Chapter XVIII1,310 words
- 22.Chapter XIX2,429 words
- 23.Chapter XX: The Conclusion3,986 words
- 24.Appendix: I707 words
- 25.Appendix: Ii.921,326 words
- 26.Appendix: III683 words
- 27.Act III: The Valkyries (divine Amazons) are on the stage. The Valkyrie501 words
- 28.Act I: By the Rhine. A king wants to get married, and also to give his120 words
- 29.Act II: By the Rhine. Alberich and Hagen discuss how to get the ring62 words
- 30.Act III: Again the nymphs in the Rhine relate what has happened215 words
- 31.Appendix: IV969 words