Description: What Is Art?, Paperback by Tolstoy, Leo; Pevear, Richard (TRN); Volokhonsky, Larissa (TRN), ISBN 0140446427, ISBN-13 9780140446425, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion. Considering and rejecting the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, Tolstoy perceives the question of the nature of art to be a religious one. Ultimately, he concludes, art must be a force for good, for the progress and improvement of mankind. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Book Title: What Is Art?
Item Length: 7.8in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.1in
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Criticism & Theory, Aesthetics, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Essays
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1996
Genre: Art, Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Item Weight: 6.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
