What is art?
Subtitle: and essays on art
By: by Tolstóy, translated by Aylmer Maude.
Contributors: Maude, Aylmer, 1858-1938, tr.
Series: The World's classics. 331
Publisher: Oxford university press; H. Milford
Published: 1932
Place of publication: [London; New York,]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Arts
Notes: "'What is art?' first appeared in 1898; the other essays in the years given in the contents. In 'The World's classics' the Maude translation was first published in 1930."
--On art (c. 1895-7).--Tolstoy's preface to 'What is art?' (1898).--What is art? (1898).--Appendices to What is art?--Preface to von Polenz's novel Der Büttnerbauer (1902).--An afterword, by Tolstóy, to Chékhov's story, Darling (1905)
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).