What Is Art?

Tolstoy, Leo; Maude, Aylmer

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ISBN 10 : 1909399256 ISBN 13 : 9781909399259

Editeur : Roads Publishing, 2014

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

What is Art? What is value? What is good taste? What makes a cultured class? Tolstoy wrestled with these questions for fifteen years, and this book is the result of his fascination with the evolution of art, and its relationship with religion, commerce, and science. As the growing digitisation of our world continues to provide new ways to create and consume art, and raises questions about its quality and its control, What is Art? challenges us to revert to the visceral, the authentic, and to think carefully about how art can shape our collective future. ABOUT THE COVER A rendering of a Rorschach ink blot, commenting on the utterly subjective nature of the analysis of art. As the title poses a question, so too does the cover - what do you see?

Biographie de l'auteur :

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born in 1828, in the Tula province of Russia, into a family of Russian nobility. In the early 1850s, he spent some time in the army, where he began to write, and following travels in Eu�rope he made a dramatic u-turn to become a spiritual anarchist. Most fa�mous for the epic tomes Anna Karenina and War and Peace, he was also a philosophical and political writer of significant scope and influence.

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