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Tolstoy's 'What is Art?' language of Brazil Giraffe Capital CorporationWith its demand that works of art be judged according to the their morally didactic content, Tolstoys reviled aesthetics has seemed to exclude from the canon far too many works widely accepted as masterpieces, including Shakespeare and Beethoven. This book, first published in 1985, argues that these are not mere oversights on the part of Tolstoy: he knew full well the consequences of his line of reasoning. The author contends that, even if we disagree