What Is Art? - Leo Tolstoy torrent

Category: Adults, Art, Classic, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: 19th Century Art Classics Essays Literary Criticism Literature Nonfiction Philosophy Russia Russian Literature

Written by Leo Tolstoy
Read by Malk Williams, Stephane Cornicard
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

During the decades of his world fame as sage and preacher as well as author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion.

These culminated in What Is Art?, published in 1898. Although Tolstoy perceived the question of art to be a religious one, he considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire, and even his own novels are condemned in the course of Tolstoy’s impassioned and iconoclastic redefinition of art as a force for good; for the improvement of humankind.

Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
Release date: 11-27-22