What Is Art?

by Tolstoy, Leo; Maude, Aylmer; Tomas, Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780872202955
• ISBN10: 087220295X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

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 students of aesthetics and anyone with philosophical interests.

Table of Contents

LEO N. TOLSTOY
A CHRONOLOGY	vi	(1)
INTRODUCTION	vii	(11)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY	xviii
WHAT IS ART?
Translator's Preface	3	(2)
Author's Preface	5	(4)
Chapter One	9	(6)
Chapter Two	15	(10)
Chapter Three	25	(16)
Chapter Four	41	(7)
Chapter Five	48	(6)
Chapter Six	54	(7)
Chapter Seven	61	(5)
Chapter Eight	66	(5)
Chapter Nine	71	(5)
Chapter Ten	76	(23)
Chapter Eleven	99	(11)
Chapter Twelve	110	(8)
Chapter Thirteen	118	(13)
Chapter Fourteen	131	(8)
Chapter Fifteen	139	(3)
Chapter Sixteen	142	(17)
Chapter Seventeen	159	(10)
Chapter Eighteen	169	(4)
Chapter Nineteen	173	(7)
Chapter Twenty	180	(13)
APPENDIX I	193	(8)
APPENDIX II	201	(8)
APPENDIX III	209