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Tolstoy cites the time, effort, public funds, and public respect spent on art and artists [2] as well as the imprecision of general opinions on art [3] as reason for writing the book. In his words, "it is difficult to say what is meant by art, and especially what is good, useful art, art for the sake of which we might condone such sacrifices as ...
The Sevastopol Sketches (pre-reform Russian: Севастопольскіе разсказы, romanized: Sevastópolʹskiye razskázy; post-reform Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, romanized: Sevastópolʹskiye rasskázy), translated into English as Sebastopol Sketches or Sebastopol Stories or Sevastopol, [1] are three short stories by Leo Tolstoy published in 1855 to ...
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The 19th-century British poet and critic Matthew Arnold opined that "A novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life." [2] Isaac Babel said that "if the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy." [2] Later novelists continued to appreciate Tolstoy's art, but sometimes also expressed criticism.
The institutional theory of art is a theory about the nature of art that holds that an object can only become art in the context of the institution known as "the art world".
Broski thinks what is going to last is "authenticity and reliability." "Those two words are so overused and so bastardized, but it doesn't take away from the core meaning," she said.
Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968-1973).
Lara Trump has decided to remove her name from consideration to be a senator in Florida replacing outgoing senator Marco Rubio.