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What Is Art?

Leo Tolstoy

Aesthetic treatise written over fifteen years and published in 1897–1898. It rejects definitions of art by beauty or pleasure and defines it as an activity by which one person consciously transmits to others feelings he has lived through, infecting them with them. It condemns as false art much elite art — including Wagner, the Symbolists and some of his own works — and defends a universal art, intelligible to all, uniting people in brotherhood. First published in full in Aylmer Maude's English translation.

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Traduction de Aylmer Maude · 35 chapitres · 5 h de lecture

  1. 1Introduction38′
  2. 2The Author’s Preface7′
  3. 3APPENDICES1′
  4. 4What is Art?10′
  5. 5CHAPTER II13′
  6. 6CHAPTER III22′
  7. 7CHAPTER IV10′
  8. 8CHAPTER V9′
  9. 9CHAPTER VI10′
  10. 10CHAPTER VII6′
  11. 11CHAPTER VIII8′
  12. 12CHAPTER IX8′
  13. 13CHAPTER X26′
  14. 14CHAPTER XI16′
  15. 15CHAPTER XII12′
  16. 16CHAPTER XIII21′
  17. 17CHAPTER XIV13′
  18. 18CHAPTER XV5′
  19. 19CHAPTER XVI26′
  20. 20CHAPTER XVII15′
  21. 21CHAPTER XVIII6′
  22. 22CHAPTER XIX11′
  23. 23CHAPTER XX THE CONCLUSION18′
  24. 24APPENDIX I.1′
  25. 25LE PHÉNOMÈNE FUTUR.2′
  26. 26THE FUTURE PHENOMENON—by Mallarmé2′
  27. 27No. 1.1′
  28. 28No. 2.1′
  29. 29No. 3.1′
  30. 30No. 4.1′
  31. 31APPENDIX III.7′
  32. 32THE STRANGER.1′
  33. 33BAUDELAIRE’S PROSE POEM, THE SOUP AND THE CLOUDS.1′
  34. 34BAUDELAIRE’S PROSE POEM, THE GALLANT MARKSMAN.1′
  35. 35SONG BY MAETERLINCK.1′
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