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Tolstoy on Aesthetics - What is Art? (Paperback)
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Tolstoy on Aesthetics - What is Art? (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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This title was first published in 2001: Tolstoy's view of art is
discussed in most courses in aesthetics, particularly his main text
What is Art? He believed that the importance of art lies not in its
purely aesthetic qualities but in its connection with life, and
that art becomes decadent where this connection is lost. This view
has often been misconceived and its strength overlooked. This book
presents a clear exposition of Tolstoy's What is Art?, highlighting
the value and importance of Tolstoy's views in relation to
aesthetics. Mounce considers the problems which exercised Tolstoy
and explains their fundamental importance in contemporary disputes.
Having viewed these problems of aesthetics as they arise in a
classic work, Howard Mounce affords readers fresh insights not
simply into the problems of aesthetics themselves, but also into
their contemporary treatment. Students and interested readers of
aesthetics and philosophy, as well as those exploring the works of
Tolstoy in literature, will find this book of particular interest
and will discover that reading What is Art? with attention, affords
something of the excitement found in removing the grime from an oil
painting - gradually from underneath there appears an authentic
masterpiece.
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