Che cosa è l'arte? by graf Leo Tolstoy

"Che cosa è l'arte?" by graf Leo Tolstoy is a philosophical treatise completed in 1897. In this provocative work, Tolstoy challenges conventional definitions of art, dismissing beauty as a standard and instead proposing that art is anything that communicates emotion. He controversially rejects accepted masters like Beethoven, Shakespeare, and Wagner, applying his radical Christian ethics to evaluate artworks. Tolstoy argues that true art should be accessible to all, unite humanity through shared feelings, and serve a moral purpose in human development. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Contributor Panzacchi, Enrico, 1840-1904
Title Che cosa è l'arte?
Original Publication Italy: Fratelli Treves Editori,1904.
Note "Preceduto da un saggio di Enrico Panzacchi: Tolstoi e Manzoni nell'idea morale dell'arte".
Note Translation of: Что такое искусство? (Chto takoe iskusstvo?)
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Art%3F Wikipedia page about this book: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_cos%27%C3%A8_l%27arte%3F
Credits Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Internet Archive)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 35.8 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language Italian
LoC Class BH: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Aesthetics
Subject Arts -- Philosophy
Subject Arts and morals
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EBook-No. 67556
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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