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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 ...
Some art theorists have proposed that the attempt to define art must be abandoned and have instead urged an anti-essentialist theory of art. [9] In 'The Role of Theory in Aesthetics' (1956), Morris Weitz famously argues that individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions will never be forthcoming for the concept 'art' because it is an ...
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.
Evelyn Hatcher, ed. Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art. 1999; David Novitz, ’’Disputes about Art’’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54:2, Spring 1996; Nina Felshin, ed. But is it Art? 1995; David Novitz, The Boundaries of Art. 1992; Stephen Davies, Definitions of Art. 1991; Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
According to Tolstoy academic Rosamund Bartlett, the event inspiring Tolstoy to write it was the assassination of Umberto I of Italy. [5] [6] According to historian Derk Bodde, in it, Tolstoy expresses his outrage at the rulers of the world who order armies to commit murders, and how they are hypocritical for opposing terrorism for its violence when it is the rulers of nations who commit the ...
Berlin goes on to use this idea of Tolstoy as a basis for an analysis of the theory of history that Tolstoy presents in his novel War and Peace. In the latter half of the essay, Berlin compares Tolstoy with the early 19th-century thinker Joseph de Maistre. As Berlin explains, while Tolstoy and de Maistre held violently contrasting views on more ...
Vladimir Chertkov (left) with Leo Tolstoy (right) The Tolstoyan movement is a social movement based on the philosophical and religious views of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910). Tolstoy's views were formed by rigorous study of the ministry of Jesus, particularly the Sermon on the Mount.
Art for art's sake—the usual English rendering of l'art pour l'art (pronounced [laʁ puʁ laʁ]), a French slogan from the latter half of the 19th century—is a phrase that expresses the philosophy that 'true' art is utterly independent of all social values and utilitarian functions, be they didactic, moral, or political.