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What Is Art?

What Is Art?

by graf Leo Tolstoy

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Author
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Credits
Tim Lindell, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Archives.)
Language
English
LoC Class
BH: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Aesthetics
Subject
Arts and morals
Category
Text
eBook-No.
64908
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64908
Release Date
March 23, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.WHAT IS ART?
  2. 2.Introduction
  3. 3.The Author’s Preface
  4. 4.Contents
  5. 5.APPENDICES
  6. 6.What is Art?
  7. 7.CHAPTER II
  8. 8.CHAPTER III
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV
  10. 10.CHAPTER V
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX
  15. 15.CHAPTER X
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVII
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIX
  25. 25.CHAPTER XX THE CONCLUSION
  26. 26.APPENDICES
  27. 27.APPENDIX I. — LE PHÉNOMÈNE FUTUR. — THE FUTURE PHENOMENON—by Mallarmé
  28. 28.APPENDIX II. [92] — No. 1. — OISEAU BLEU COULEUR DU TEMPS. — BLUE BIRD. — No. 2. — ATTIRANCES. — ATTRACTIONS. — No. 3. — ENONE AU CLAIR VISAGE. — ENONE. — No. 4. — BERCEUSE D’OMBRE. — THE SHADOW LULLABY.
  29. 29.APPENDIX III.
  30. 30.APPENDIX IV. Translations of French poems and prose quoted in Chapter X. — BAUDELAIRE’S “FLOWERS OF EVIL.” No. XXIV. — BAUDELAIRE’S “FLOWERS OF EVIL.” No. XXXVI. — DUELLUM. — FROM BAUDELAIRE’S PROSE WORK ENTITLED “LITTLE POEMS.” — THE STRANGER. — BAUDELAIRE’S PROSE POEM, THE SOUP AND THE CLOUDS. — BAUDELAIRE’S PROSE POEM, THE GALLANT MARKSMAN. — VERLAINE’S “FORGOTTEN AIRS.” No. I. — VERLAINE’S “FORGOTTEN AIRS.” No. VIII. — SONG BY MAETERLINCK.

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