Name: What is Art? (in English)
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Author: Maude, Aylmer ; Diederichsen, Mark ; Tolstoy, Leo
ISBN: 9781500556549

Type

Physical Book

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

English

Pages

174

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9781500556549

Synopsis "What is Art? (in English)"

2014 paperback edition of Leo Tolstoy's controversial indictment of sthetic theory. Tolstoy contends that much of European art since the Renaissance is not "true" art but "counterfeit" art, marked by being mannered, imitative, sensationalist, and overly intellectual. Few of the most highly regarded masters in the canon of art history are spared Tolstoy's scathing criticisms - Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Baudelaire, Zola, and many others, are derided as insincere, decadent, and obsessed with erotic mania. Even the concept of beauty is exposed as a manipulative, calculating, and perverse obsession of the upper class, largely produced at the expense of the laboring class. The cover is a portrait of Tolstoy painted by Ilya Repin.

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