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100 1 _aTolstoy, Leo, graf,
_d1828-1910
245 1 0 _aMitä on taide?
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aTranslation of: Что такое искусство? (Chto takoe iskusstvo?)
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mit%C3%A4_on_taide%3F
500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-03
508 _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
520 _a"Mitä on taide?" by graf Leo Tolstoy is a philosophical treatise written in the late 19th century. It examines what art is, why it matters, and whom it should serve, sharply challenging the era’s worship of “beauty” and the prestige institutions of opera, ballet, museums, and criticism. The work pushes toward an ethical, socially grounded understanding of art rather than elite entertainment. The opening of the work portrays a world saturated with arts coverage and lavishly funded cultural institutions, then contrasts this with the exhausting, demeaning labor behind a fashionable opera rehearsal—petty tyrannies, empty spectacle, and a trivial, artificial plot—while calling ballet’s erotic display immoral. From there it asks who benefits from such “art,” whether its vast costs are justified, and why criticism is so contradictory. It questions the common identification of art with “beauty,” noting how the term stretches absurdly to cooking, dress, and even smell and touch, and then surveys a cacophony of aesthetic theories (from Baumgarten and Winckelmann through Kant, Schiller, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Herbart, Schopenhauer, and others) to show their incompatibility and obscurity. The start thus sets up a rigorous inquiry by demonstrating that current definitions of art and beauty are confused, unstable, and ethically unmoored. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPorvoo: Werner Söderström, 1898
653 _aArts -- Philosophy
653 _aArts and morals
700 1 _aAalberg, Jalmari,
_d1872-1904
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76972
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