What Is Art?
Book Details
Author(s)Tolstoy, Leo
PublisherHackett Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN / ASIN087220295X
ISBN-139780872202955
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank1,228,253
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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 languages. 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.










