What Is Art? by graf Leo Tolstoy

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Always visible content "What Is Art?" by graf Leo Tolstoy is a philosophical work completed in 1897. Tolstoy questions the very nature of art, rejecting beauty-based definitions to propose that art is anything communicating emotion—from jokes to church services. Yet his Christian moralism leads him to dismiss celebrated masters like Beethoven, Wagner, and Shakespeare, along with most of his own writings. He condemns the obscurity and artificiality of contemporary art, insisting that true art must Hidden checkbox to control the toggle Clickable label to show more The extra text that is initially hidden Clickable label to show less be accessible to all and serve humanity's moral evolution by evoking brotherhood and love. (This is an automatically generated summary.)