What is art?
Subtitle: and essays on art
By: Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Aylmer Maude
Contributors: Maude, Aylmer, 1858-1938
Series: The World's classics -- 331
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Art; Art and morals; Philosophy
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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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: Tolstóy's preface to What is art? (1898); title: What is art? (1898); title: Appendices to What is art?; title: Preface to von Polenz's novel Der Büttnerbauer (1902); title: An afterword, by Tolstóy, to Chékhov's story, Darling (1905).