Tolstoy on art

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A survey of Tolstoy’s Essays on art (1924)- Schoolboys and art (1861)- The Last Supper (1885)- On truth in art (1887)- “What is truth?” (1890)- Introduction to Amiel’s Journal (1893)- Introduction to S.T. Semenov’s peasant stories (1894)- Introduction to the works of Guy de Maupassant (1894)- From a letter to Peter Verigin, the Doukhobor leader (1895)- On art (c.1895-7)- An introduction to “What is art?” (1899)- Tolstoy’s Preface to “What is art?” (1898)- What is art? (1898)- Appendices.- Tolstoy’s view of art (1900 [&] 1924)- Preface to Polenz’s novel Der Büttnerbauer (1902)- An afterword, by Tolstoy, to Chekhov’s story, Darling (1905)- Shakespeare and the drama (1906)- A talk on the drama (c.1907)- Two kinds of mental activity (1908)- Preface to Orlov’s album of Russian Peasants (1909)- Appendix: Darling, by Anton Chekhov