What Is Art?
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About This Book
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 ...
Chapters (324)
- WHAT IS ART?
- Introduction
- The Author’s Preface
- APPENDICES
- What is Art?
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX THE CONCLUSION
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I.
- LE PHÉNOMÈNE FUTUR.
- THE FUTURE PHENOMENON—by Mallarmé
- APPENDIX II.[92]
- No. 1.
- OISEAU BLEU COULEUR DU TEMPS.
- BLUE BIRD.
- No. 2.
- ATTIRANCES.
- ATTRACTIONS.
- No. 3.
- ENONE AU CLAIR VISAGE.
- ENONE.
- No. 4.
- BERCEUSE D’OMBRE.
- THE SHADOW LULLABY.
- APPENDIX III.
- APPENDIX IV. Translations of French poems and prose quoted in Chapter X.
- BAUDELAIRE’S “FLOWERS OF EVIL.” No. XXIV.
- BAUDELAIRE’S “FLOWERS OF EVIL.” No. XXXVI.
- DUELLUM.
- FROM BAUDELAIRE’S PROSE WORK ENTITLED “LITTLE POEMS.”
- THE STRANGER.
- BAUDELAIRE’S PROSE POEM, THE SOUP AND THE CLOUDS.
- BAUDELAIRE’S PROSE POEM, THE GALLANT MARKSMAN.
- VERLAINE’S “FORGOTTEN AIRS.” No. I.
- VERLAINE’S “FORGOTTEN AIRS.” No. VIII.
- SONG BY MAETERLINCK.
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