Description: Tolstoy : What Is Art?, Paperback by Tolstoy, Leo; Maude, Aylmer (TRN); Jones, G. (TRN); Jones, (EDT), ISBN 1853993816, ISBN-13 9781853993817, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Both critics and admirers of Tolstoys great novel were shocked by the savage iconoclasm of his What is Art? when it appeared in 1898. How was it that this great artist could condemn the works of Shakespeare, Raphael, Beethoven and even his own Anna Karenina as false art? Todays reader still has to grapple with that paradox. The essay still has power to challenge and provoke, for it was written by a giant who took art seriously while western civilisation toyed with it as a mere pastime. For Tolstoy, art was as natural and as necessary for humankind as speech.
In his introduction to this translation, W. Gareth Jones shows how vitally Tolstoys personality and experience of life were engaged in creating What is Art?, how integral the essay was to his art and teaching, and why it continues to demand a response from us.
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Book Title: Tolstoy : What Is Art?
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Name: Tolstoy: What Is Art?
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Russian, Criticism & Theory, General, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Item Height: 0.5 in
Features: New Edition
Type: Language Course
Item Weight: 9.1 Oz
Author: L. N. Tolstoy
Item Length: 8.4 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, Art, Literary Collections
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
