What is Art?

Autori

• Leone Tolstoi

Parametri

• 324 pagine
• 12 ore di lettura

• Arte / Cultura
• Narrativa
• Saggistica
• Storie vere
• Tematica filosofica

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2021