What Is Art?

What is Art? What is value? What is good taste? What makes a cultured
class? Tolstoy wrestled with these questions for fifteen years, and this
book is the result of his fascination with the evolution of art, and its
relationship with religion, commerce, and science. As the growing
digitization of our world continues to provide new ways to create and
consume art, and raises questions about its quality and its control, What
is Art? challenges us to revert to the visceral, the authentic, and to
think carefully about how art can shape our collective future.