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"What Is Art?" (Russian: Что такое искусство? [Chto takoye iskusstvo?]; 1897) is an essay by Leo Tolstoy in which he argues against numerous aesthetic theories which define art in terms of the good, truth, and especially beauty. In Tolstoy's opinion, art at the time was corrupt and decadent, and artists had been misled.托爾斯泰《藝術論》耿濟之譯，台北:晨鐘，1972/82，
此譯本可能有不少小錯譬如說 p.28/95 Schiller 雪萊/席勒
上周末，台北懷恩堂有一場關於此論文的解說會. 我缺席.
本書以"基督教藝術的任務就是實現人類友愛的連合."為結語.
The task for Christian art is to establish brotherly union among men.
What Is Art
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MS.,
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
AYLMER MAUDE
http://archive.org/stream/whatisart00tolsuoft/whatisart00tolsuoft_djvu.txt
英文本有附錄譯文為此本漢譯所略去
Tolstoy and His Problems - Page 38 - Google Books Result
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Aylmer Maude - 2004 - Biography & Autobiography
and to-day we are told by many that art has nothing to do with morality — that art should ... I went one day, with a lady artist, to the Bodkin Art Gallery, in Moscow.