{"product_id":"what-is-art-aylmer-maude-9781500556549","title":"What is Art?","description":"2014 paperback edition of Leo Tolstoy's controversial indictment of  sthetic theory. Tolstoy contends that much of European art since the Renaissance is not \"true\" art but \"counterfeit\" art, marked by being mannered, imitative, sensationalist, and overly intellectual. Few of the most highly regarded masters in the canon of art history are spared Tolstoy's scathing criticisms - Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Baudelaire, Zola, and many others, are derided as insincere, decadent, and obsessed with erotic mania. Even the concept of beauty is exposed as a manipulative, calculating, and perverse obsession of the upper class, largely produced at the expense of the laboring class. The cover is a portrait of Tolstoy painted by Ilya Repin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aylmer Maude, Leo Tolstoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1500556548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781500556549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.40d","brand":"Aylmer Maude","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985943527679,"sku":"9781500556549","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c0ece49a-b026-467b-afb5-10c8d5a6c816.jpg?v=1683280457","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-is-art-aylmer-maude-9781500556549","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}