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    What Is Art? (Unabridged)
    What Is Art? (Unabridged)
    What Is Art? (Unabridged)
    Audiobook7 hours

    What Is Art? (Unabridged)

    Written by Leo Tolstoy

    Narrated by Digital Voice Marcus G

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    • Art

    • Art Criticism

    • Definition of Beauty

    • Art & Its Counterfeits

    • Exclusive Art

    • Philosophical Discourse

    • Evolution of Art

    • Artistic Elitism

    • Power of Knowledge

    • Fall From Grace

    • Noble Savage

    • Power of Art

    • Power of Unity

    • Tortured Artist

    • Intellectual Protagonist

    • Philosophy

    • Creativity

    • Literature

    • Art & Its Purpose

    • Art & Aesthetics

    About this audiobook

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

    In "What Is Art?", Tolstoy defines art not by its beauty or form, but by its ability to communicate feelings. He believes the artist intentionally evokes a feeling within themselves, then expresses it through various means (words, music, paintings, etc.) so others can experience the same feeling.

    Tolstoy sees art as a powerful tool for uniting humanity by allowing us to share emotions and understand each other on a deeper level. However, he differentiates between "good" and "bad" art based on the feelings it transmits. According to him, good art promotes positive and universal values like compassion and love, while bad art transmits harmful or negative emotions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFalcon Press
    Release dateMar 22, 2022
    ISBN9798868740763
    What Is Art? (Unabridged)
    Author

    Leo Tolstoy

    Count Lev (Leo) Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born at Vasnaya Polyana in the Russian province of Tula in 1828. He inherited the family title aged nineteen, quit university and after a period of the kind of dissolute aristocratic life so convincingly portrayed in his later novels, joined the army, where he started to write. Travels in Europe opened him to western ideas, and he returned to his family estates to live as a benign landowner. In 1862 he married Sofia Behr, who bore him thirteen children. He expressed his increasingly subversive, but devout, views through prolific work that culminated in the immortal novels of his middle years, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Beloved in Russia and with a worldwide following, but feared by the Tsarist state and excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox church, he died in 1910.

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