1st Edition

Tolstoy's 'What is Art?'

By Terry Diffey Copyright 1985
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface.  1. Introduction  2. Art as the Expression of Feeling  3. Works of Art: Evaluation and Classification  4. Counterfeit Art  5. Art, Science and Morality  6. Tolstoy’s Polemic: A Postscript

Biography

Diffey, Terry