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  2. What Is Art? - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Theory of art - Wikipedia

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    In Beardsley's words, something is art just in case it is "either an arrangement of conditions intended to be capable of affording an experience with marked aesthetic character or (incidentally) an arrangement belonging to a class or type of arrangements that is typically intended to have this capacity" (The aesthetic point of view: selected ...

  4. Russian speculative fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction books from the 1920s included science predictions, adventure and space travel, often with a hue of working class agenda and satire against capitalism. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Alexey N. Tolstoy's Aelita (1923), one of the most influential books of the era, featured two Russians raising a revolution on Mars.

  5. Leo Tolstoy bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Leo Tolstoy Archive, at RevoltLib.com; Leo Tolstoy Archive, at Marxists.org; Leo Tolstoy Archive, at TheAnarchistLibrary.org; Works by Leo Tolstoy bibliography in eBook form at Standard Ebooks; A comprehensive anthology of Tolstoy's short fiction at Standard Ebooks; Online Books Page — free, public-domain books and articles by Tolstoy ...

  6. Sevastopol Sketches - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Any form of exercise can help rejuvenate the brain - AOL

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    Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports. Weather. Any form of exercise can help rejuvenate the brain. Robby Berman. November 22, 2024 at 2:00 AM. Staying active on a daily basis helps keep the brain ...

  8. Aylmer and Louise Maude - Wikipedia

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    Aylmer Maude was born in Ipswich, the son of a Church of England clergyman, Reverend F.H. Maude, [1] and his wife Lucy, who came from a Quaker background. [2] The family lived near the newly built Holy Trinity Church where Rev. Maude's preaching helped draw a large congregation.

  9. A woman bypassed multiple security checkpoints to get on a ...

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    Investigators are trying to determine how a woman got past multiple security checkpoints this week at New York’s JFK International Airport and boarded a plane to Paris, apparently hiding in the ...