What Leo Tolstoy thinks about taste
Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910); author of War and Peace and The Kingdom of God Is Within You.
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1 dated position, c. 1897–1898, in their own words. Our reading of what Leo Tolstoy has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThe Wagner production he attended is a spurious counterfeit of art that perverts upper-class taste
Their wordsAnd thus, thanks to the masterly skill with which it counterfeits art while having nothing in common with it, a meaningless, coarse, spurious production finds acceptance all over the world, costs millions of roubles to produce, and assists more and more to pervert the taste of people of the upper classes and their conception of what is art.
↗What Is Art? (1897-1898; Aylmer Maude translation)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book