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Title:What Is Art?
Author:Leo Tolstoy; Translated by Aylmer Maude
ISBN:087220295X : 9780872202955
Format:Paperback
Size:150x210mm
Pages:232
Weight: .265 Kg.
Published:Hackett Publishing - November 1996
List Price: 6.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Theory of art: Western philosophy; from c1900-


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.