What Is Art
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
What Is Art
By (Author) L.N. Tolstoy
Translated by Aylmer Maude
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
1st October 1996
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Western philosophy from c 1800
700.1
Physical Properties
Paperback
232
Description
Maude's excellent translation of Tolstoy's treatise on the emotionalist theory of art was the first unexpurgated version of the work to appear in any language. More than ninety years later this work remains, as Vincent Tomas observed, "one of the most rigorous attacks on formalism and on the doctrine of art for art's sake ever written". Tomas's Introduction makes this the edition of choice for students of aesthetics and anyone with philosophical interests.
Author Bio
Leo Tolstoy is the author of what are widely regarded as two of the greatest novels ever written: Anna Karenina; and War and Peace.
