TY - BOOK AU - Tolstoy,Leo,graf AU - Panzacchi,Enrico TI - Che cosa è l'arte? AV - BH PY - 2022/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Arts -- Philosophy KW - Arts and morals N1 - "Preceduto da un saggio di Enrico Panzacchi: Tolstoi e Manzoni nell'idea morale dell'arte"; Translation of: Что такое искусство? (Chto takoe iskusstvo?); Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Art%3F Wikipedia page about this book: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_cos%27%C3%A8_l%27arte%3F; Release date is 2022-03-03; Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Internet Archive); Originally published; Italy: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1904 N2 - "Che cosa è l'arte?" by graf Leo Tolstoy is a philosophical treatise completed in 1897. In this provocative work, Tolstoy challenges conventional definitions of art, dismissing beauty as a standard and instead proposing that art is anything that communicates emotion. He controversially rejects accepted masters like Beethoven, Shakespeare, and Wagner, applying his radical Christian ethics to evaluate artworks. Tolstoy argues that true art should be accessible to all, unite humanity through shared feelings, and serve a moral purpose in human development. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://archive.org/details/checosalartetr00tolsuoft UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67556 ER -