During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898.
This volume features over 40 b/w illustrations.
Examines the painter's techniques, elements of composition, the artist as visionary and social critic, and the nature of painting, sculpture, architecture, realism, expressionism, and abstraction
Publication contains 27 questions posed by high school students and answered by art educators from the Fondation Beyeler, along with Swiss art experts.
Although Nietzsche is perfectly convinced that the heuristic potential of human beings, as well as of the more gifted animals in that sense, is largely limited by their physical and perceptive conformation, nevertheless, as concerns art ...
"An intimate dialogue with Joseph Beuys ... takes us into the deeper motivations and understandings underlying 'social sculpture' and his expanded conception of art.
What is Art?
What is Art?: An Introduction to Painting, Sculpture and Architecture