Leo Tolstoy
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.73 | 2015 Users | 168 Reviews
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| Original Title: | What Is Art? ISBN13 9789640000922 |
| Edition Language: | Persian |
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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.Particularize Out Of Books هنر چیست؟
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| Author | : | Leo Tolstoy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | 1966 by امیرکبیر (first published 1897) |
| Categories | : | Art. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature |
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Having never read Tolstoi before, this seemed like an interesting start since knowing his perspective about art in general would make me understand his own work better, especially his novels.This being said, I was clearly not ready for this book. The amount of research I had to do in order to understand his ideas about some writers, musicians, painters, sculptures, etc. (or at least know who he was talking about) was, at times, overwhelming, which made me fall behind on schedule to finish theI 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
Honestly, this felt like one big eloquent bitch-rant by our brah Tolstoy. I say that and it sounds cheap, but dear lord, the section where he goes off on Wagner's operas - and basically says that any drug trip would be better is... a lot of angry artist. Anyway, Tolstoy's big conclusion in this book is that most so-called art is just crap imitation and the only art that matters be works that promote real (positive - non-elitist, peaceful catholic with a little "c" brotherhood inducing) feeling.
You think youre an artist? Youre no artist, punk! Thats what Leo Tolstoy says in his essay WHAT IS ART? He dismisses everyone from Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire, Wagner to even some of his own writings as counterfeit. For Tolstoy art is twofold, an expression of divine devotion and brotherly love. It is not overly complex or striving for beauty, but a simple and pure emotion of the artist that has never been shared before. For Tolstoy only that of God can be infinitely
The tl;drQ: What is art?A: "To call up in oneself a feeling once experienced and, having called it up, to convey it by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, images expressed in words, so that others experience the same feeling - in this consists the activity of art. Ar is that human activity which consists in one man's consciously conveying to others, by certain external signs, the feelings he has experienced, and in others being infected by those feelings and also experiencing
brillant and very challenging to what our conventional view of art is. Tolstoys main point is that the art that we see today (and in his time also) is on the whole very immitative and not true art. for him true is is when the artist feels something and wants to convey that through his work so that the person viewing it "feels" what the artist felt also. there are lots of other very challenging views in here which are very thought provoking. Some of my favourite bits: "But among these works of
The first time I read Tolstoy I wanted to throw up. We have a collection of his "Short Fictions" and there were a few passages about women that made me feel uniquely uncomfortable. There's a lot of anxious power behind his words (reading him in the original must feel like falling down a staircase) This is an extremely well written book at times but also, ridiculous. The vivisection of Wagner and Beethoven leave us..miffed. Yes at times he is right (should Wagner be included in the canon? I am
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