What is art?
Subtitle: and essays on art
By: by Leo Tolstóy ; translated by Aylmer Maude
Contributors: Maude, Aylmer, 1858-1938, translator
Series: The World's classics -- 331; World's classics -- 331
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1959
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Art; Art and morals
Work titles: Chto takoe iskusstvo?
Notes: "ʻWhat is art?ʼ first appeared in 1898; the other essays in the years given in the contents.  In ʻThe Worlds classicsʼ the Maude translation was first published in 1930."
Table of contents: title: Schoolboys and art (1861).; title: On truth in art (1887).; title: Introduction to Amiel's journal (1893).; title: Introduction to S.T.Semënov's peasant stories (1894).; title: Introduction to the works of Guy de Maupassant (1894).; title: On art (c.1895-7).; title: Tolstoy's preface to ʻWhat is art?ʼ (1898).; title: Appendices to What is art.; title: Preface to von Polenz's novel Der Büttnerbauer (1902).; title: An afterword, by Tolstóy, to Chékov's story, Darling (1905).