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Tolstoy's 'What is Art?' (Hardcover)
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Tolstoy's 'What is Art?' (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
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With its demand that works of art be judged according to the their
morally didactic content, Tolstoy's reviled aesthetics has seemed
to exclude from the canon far too many works widely accepted as
masterpieces, including Shakespeare and Beethoven. This book, first
published in 1985, argues that these are not mere oversights on the
part of Tolstoy: he knew full well the consequences of his line of
reasoning. The author contends that, even if we disagree with and
eventually reject much of what Tolstoy concludes, his account of
the nature and purpose of art is nevertheless worth consideration.
Diffey's argument by no means accepts all of 'What is Art?', but by
suggesting that the work is best interpreted as a counterpoint to
the amoral aestheticism prevalent in Russia at the time, he does
much to restore it to a status deserving attention, particularly in
today's climate of extreme relativism.
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