Paperback
Tolstoy’s radical vision: Art’s true purpose revealed, challenging everything.
What is Art?
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
25 February 2016
Summary
Leo Tolstoy is one of the most celebrated novelists of all time. As well as writing literary classics such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace, he was also the author of some hugely influential critical and philosophical works. First published in 1898, his book-length essay What is Art? has lost none of its power to challenge our perception of art and its function in society today. In this provocative work, Tolstoy famously dismisses works by Shakespeare, Dante, Wagn…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474265096 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147426509X |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, W. Gareth Jones |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 25 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 134mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Revelations |
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is the author of Anna Karenina, War and Peace and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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