Tolstoy on art

About this eBook

Author

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910

Original Publication

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924.

Credits

Carol Brown, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

N: Fine Arts

Subject

Art and morals

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 79027

Release Date

July 5, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TOLSTOY ON ART
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.TOLSTOY ON ART — AYLMER MAUDE
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.PREFACE
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.ERRATA
8. 8.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
9. 9.TOLSTOY ON ART
10. 10.TOLSTOY ON ART — PART I — A SURVEY OF TOLSTOY’S ESSAY ON ART
11. 11.PART II — SCHOOLBOYS AND ART
12. 12.PART III — THE LAST SUPPER
13. 13.PART IV — ON TRUTH IN ART
14. 14.PART V — WHAT IS TRUTH?
15. 15.PART VI — INTRODUCTION TO AMIEL’S “JOURNAL.”
16. 16.PART VII — INTRODUCTION TO S. T. SEMËNOV’S PEASANT STORIES
17. 17.PART VIII — INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT
18. 18.PART IX — FROM A LETTER TO PETER VERIGIN, THE DOUKHOBOR LEADER
19. 19.PART X — ON ART: — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII
20. 20.PART XI — AN INTRODUCTION TO “WHAT IS ART?”
21. 21.PART XII — WHAT IS ART?
22. 22.PART XIII — WHAT IS ART?
23. 23.CHAPTER I
24. 24.CHAPTER II
25. 25.CHAPTER III
26. 26.CHAPTER IV
27. 27.CHAPTER V
28. 28.CHAPTER VI
29. 29.CHAPTER VII
30. 30.CHAPTER VIII
31. 31.CHAPTER IX
32. 32.CHAPTER X
33. 33.CHAPTER XI
34. 34.CHAPTER XII
35. 35.CHAPTER XIII
36. 36.CHAPTER XIV
37. 37.CHAPTER XV
38. 38.CHAPTER XVI
39. 39.CHAPTER XVII
40. 40.CHAPTER XVIII
41. 41.CHAPTER XIX
42. 42.CHAPTER XX — CONCLUSION
43. 43.APPENDICES — APPENDIX I
44. 44.APPENDIX II
45. 45.APPENDIX III
46. 46.APPENDIX IV
47. 47.PART XIV — TOLSTOY’S VIEW OF ART
48. 48.PART XV — PREFACE TO POLENZ’S NOVEL “DER BÜTTNERBAUER”
49. 49.PART XVI — AN AFTERWORD, BY TOLSTOY, TO CHEKHOV’S STORY, “DARLING”
50. 50.PART XVII — SHAKESPEARE AND THE DRAMA — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII
51. 51.PART XVIII — A TALK ON THE DRAMA.
52. 52.PART XIX — TWO KINDS OF MENTAL ACTIVITY
53. 53.PART XX — PREFACE TO N. ORLOV’S ALBUM OF “RUSSIAN PEASANTS”
54. 54.APPENDIX — DARLING — FOOTNOTES:
55. 55.INDEX
56. 56.Advertisements
57. 57.Transcriber’s Note:

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