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What Is Art?
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Based on 484 Ratings and 57 Reviews

Book Description
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 stu... More
Book Information
PublisherHackett Publishing Company
BindingPaperback (25 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages213
ISBN-10087220295X
ISBN-13978-0872202955
Publication Date10/1996
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About Leo Tolstoy (Author) : Leo Tolstoy was a published adapter and an author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Leo Tolstoy include Death of Ivan Ilyich, War and Peace (Unabridged), Anna... more
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About Vincent Tomas (Introduction) : Vincent Tomas is a published author. Published credits of Vincent Tomas include What Is Art?.
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About Louise and Aylmer Maude (Translator) : Louise and Aylmer Maude is a published author and a translator. Some of the published credits of Louise and Aylmer Maude include Anna Karenina (BBC Classic Collection), War and Peace (Oxford World's C... more
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