![]() ![]() ![]() Tolstoy elaborates on the union facet to his definition of art. ![]() What does he means in this statement? Why would lacking this specific ability make us like wild beasts and/or the laconic Kasper Hauser? Tolstoy notes that without this, “men would be like wild beasts, or like Kasper Hauser”. One important aspect to the recipient’s part is the capacity to receive feelings and thoughts from the author and pass them on to others. Instead, he defines art (although stating that no exact objective definition of art exists) as communication between the creator behind the artwork and the recipient of the art that eventually unites people through a common understanding of the artwork. He disagrees with existing definitions of art as something that manifests beauty and offers pleasure. In “What is Art?”, Leo Tolstoy makes a strong argument that to define art “correctly”, one must consider it as “one of the conditions of human life”. ![]()
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