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What is Art?

Paperback • 1996 • English

What is Art?

By graf Leo Tolstoy

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About the book

Maude's excellent translation of Tolstoy's treatise on the emotionalist theory of art was the first unexpurgated version of the work to appear in any languages. More than ninety years later this work remains, as Vincent Tomas observed, one of the most rigorous attacks on formalism and on the doctrine of art for art's sake ever written. Tomas's Introduction makes this the edition of choice for students of aesthetics and anyone with philosophical interests.

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9780872202955

Publisher

Hackett Publishing

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

What is Art?

Format

Paperback

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