What Is Art?

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During the decades of his world fame as sage preacher as well as author of War Peace Anna Karenina, Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays polemics on issues of morality, social justice religion These culminated in What is Art , published in 1898 Although Tolstoy perceived the question of art to be a religious one, he considered rejected the idea that art reveals reinvents through beauty The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire even his own novels are condemned in the course of Tolstoy s impassioned iconoclastic redefinition of art as a force for good, for the improvement of humankind. Read What Is Art? – kino-fada.fr Chto takoye iskusstvo What Is Art , Leo Tolstoy 1976 1345 278 1350 1352 1355 1356 1364 19 ... Unlike many works of aesthetics which tend to be overly abstract and dense, using technical terms from philosophy and a layering of sophisticated concepts, Leo Tolstoy s book is clear cut, employing language and ideas anybody interested in the subject can understand.Tolstoy is passionate about art and art s place within human experience For many years, he tells us, he has been observing art and reading about art And what he sees and reads is not pretty For instance, he goes to a rehearsal of Unlike many works of aesthetics which tend to be overly abstract and dense, using technical terms from philosophy and a layering of sophisticated concepts, Leo Tolstoy s book is clear cut, employing language and ideas anybody interested in the subject can understand.Tolstoy is passionate about art and art s place within human experience For many years, he tells us, he has been observing art and reading about art And what he sees and reads is not pretty For instance, he goes to a rehearsal of opera All is stopped.... 101 I m so conflicted with Tolstoy I agree with him about half the time, and the other half, I just wish he d stop being so damn Puritanical I don t disagree with Tolstoy s basic thesis, that art is defined by the following features a person the artist feels a certain emotion, and captures that emotion in his work a book, poem, concert, whatever so that the viewer is infected with that same emotion That works for me I agree also with Tolstoy that emotional resonance isimportant than t I m so conflicted with Tolstoy I agree with him about half the time, and the other half, I just wish he d stop being so damn Puritanical I don t disagree with Tolstoy s basic thesis, that art is defined by the following features a person the artist feels a certain emotion, and captures that emotion in his work a book, poem, concert, whatever so that the viewer is infected with that same emotion That works for me I agree also with Tolstoy that emotional resonance isimportant than the superficial beauty of a work Substance over style I disagree with Tolstoy not so much in his definition of what art is, but rather, what good art is For Tolsto...Good works of art to Tolstoy the works of Victor Hugo, the novels of Charles Dickens, some of the tales of Gogol and Pushkin, the writings of Maupassant, the comedies of Moli re whom Tolstoy refers to as the most excellent artist of modern times, according to this translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky , the writings of Dostoevsky, Schiller s Robbers, Uncle Tom s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Adam Bede by George Eliot...I recently read this book on holiday in Austria.Fascinating I am a Fine Art student attending Falmouth University Cornwall, going into my final year, and a devout follower of Jesus Throughout the course of my degree I have constantly struggled to reconcile my beliefs, with fine art.Most of the time art seemed pretty pointless to me, it seemed completely self indulgent, and a total waste of my time along with everybody else s when considering the state of this world and the majority of it s in I recently read this book on holiday in Austria.Fascinating I am a Fine Art student attending Falmouth University Cornwall, going into my final year, and a devout follower of Jesus Throughout the course of my degree I have constantly struggled to reconcile my beliefs, with fine art.Most of the time art seemed pretty pointless to me, it seemed completely self indulgent, and a total waste of my time along with everybody else s when considering the state of this world and the majority of it s inhabitants I am so glad to have found such a friend in Tolstoy.I almost completely agree with everything covered in the book, and share his discontent with vague, vein, modern art I, however, believe in people s freedom, to manufacture art regardless of it s goodness , even still I wish thatandcreative people would be willing to endeavour to stand outside of Western individualism, pleasure, and art for arts sake and begin to explore art that is ori... 5 615But if the majority do not understand, they must be given an explanation, the knowledge necessary for understanding But it turns out that this knowledge does not exist, that the works cannot be explained, and therefore those who say that the majority do not understand good works of art give no explanations, but say that in order to understand one must read, look at, or listen to the same work over and over again But this is not to explain, it is to make accustomed And one can get accustomed But if the majority do not understand, they must be giv...

What Is Art?
  • English
  • 24 October 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 252 pages
  • 0735102937
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • What Is Art?