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Artist-Audience Communication: Tolstoy Reclaimed
by Saam Trivedi
Whoever is really conversant with art recognizes in [Tolstoy's What is Art?] the voice of the master.It is widely accepted in contemporary Anglo-American aesthetics that, despite Tolstoy's own literary achievements, his "moralism" about art is a view without much merit. For the most part, I concur with this current consensus about Tolstoy. However, despite the many flaws in his view, I think Tolstoy was on to something, after all. In particular, I believe a concept of artist-audience communication similar to what Tolstoy had in mind can be fleshed out so as to avoid the problems that Tolstoy ran into, while reclaiming the insights in his view.
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