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What Is Art?
work by Tolstoy
Also known as: “Chto takoye iskusstvo?”
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discussed in biography
- In Leo Tolstoy: Fiction after 1880 of Leo Tolstoy
In Chto takoye iskusstvo? (1898; What Is Art?) he argued that true art requires a sensitive appreciation of a particular experience, a highly specific feeling that is communicated to the reader not by propositions but by “infection.” In Tolstoy’s view, most celebrated works of high art derive from no real…
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views on aesthetics
- In aesthetics: The value of art
… in Chto takoye iskusstvo? (1896; What Is Art?), has seldom seemed wholly satisfactory. Philosophers have constantly sought for a value in aesthetic experience that is unique to it and which, therefore, could not be obtained from any other source. The extreme version of this intrinsic approach is that associated with…
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