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015			_aGB95-88111
020			_a0140446427 (pbk.)
020			_a9780140446425 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)35364981 _z(OCoLC)33818875
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm35364981
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dUKM _dJNA _dBAKER _dCBC _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dSINLB _dEAU _dUAB
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050	0	0	_aBH39 _b.T62413 1995
050	1	4	_aN70 _b.T722 1995
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100	1		_aTolstoy, Leo, _cgraf, _d1828-1910.
240	1	0	_aChto takoe iskusstvo. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aWhat is art? / _cLeo Tolstoy ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c1995.
300			_a[xxvi], 201 p. ; _c20 cm.
490	1		_aPenguin classics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. xxv-[xxvi]).
520			_aDuring the decades of his world fame as sage and preacher as well as author of War and Peace and Anna Karenin, 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 progress and improvement of mankind. In his illuminating preface Richard Pevear considers What is Art? in relation to the problems of faith and doubt, and the spiritual anguish and fear of death which preoccupied Tolstoy in the last decades of his life.
650		0	_aArts _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aArts and morals.
653	0		_aVisual arts
830		0	_aPenguin classics.
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