Che cosa è l'arte? by graf Leo Tolstoy
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"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 | Wikipedia page about this book: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_cos%27%C3%A8_l%27arte%3F |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Art%3F |
| Note | Translation of: Что такое искусство? (Chto takoe iskusstvo?) |
| 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 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 67556 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-67556-5 |
| Release Date | Mar 3, 2022 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 361 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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