What is art?
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-19102004
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Originally published in 1898, Tolstoy's polemic 'What is Art?' considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty. He redefined art as a force for good, for the progress and improvement of mankind.
Main title:
What is art? / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 1995.
Collation:
xxv, 201 p. ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxvi).Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9780140446425 (pbk)
Dewey class:
700.1701
Language:
EnglishRussian
BRN:
977012