Что такое искусство?
What Is Art?
Leo Tolstoy Лев Николаевич Толстой · 1828 – 1910
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Late in life Tolstoy defines art as the passing of felt emotion from one person to others, and judges it by whether it unites people. From there he dismisses much of the modern canon, his own great novels included. The verdicts are often perverse, but the questions about who art serves and what it costs are honest and still unsettling.