 | 1978 - 318 pages
...conclusion of his study of Dostoevsky, Pere*"Art is a human activity consisting in this," writes Tolstoy, "that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by these feelings and also experience them." What Is Art? and... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1923 - 648 pages
...alone translates it through emotional and intellectual channels into definite forms which we call Art. "Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that...external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them." (Tolstoy:... | |
 | Stephen David Ross - 1984 - 590 pages
...so to transmit that feeling that others experience the same feeling—this is the activity of art. Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one...external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by these feelings and also experience them. If a man is infected... | |
 | Howard Wayne Morgan - 1989 - 212 pages
...and thoughtful emotion, and sheer beauty. But to be understandable, those messages must be orderly. "Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain ordered external signs, hands on to others feelings that he has lived through, etc.," Cox insisted... | |
 | James Matheson Thompson - 1990 - 572 pages
...the same feeling — in this does the activity of art consist. Art is a human activity which consists in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, communicates to others the feelings experienced by him, so that other men are infected by these feelings... | |
 | Joseph Pivato - 1991 - 262 pages
...tangle of emotions it had engendered. Emotions is the key word. Tolstoy speaks in a more inclusive vein: Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one...external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them. '° This is... | |
 | Adam Zachary Newton - 1995 - 366 pages
...expression of feeling is capable of experiencing the emotion which moved the man who expressed it. ... Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one...external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by those feelings and also experience them."59 Tolstoy's theory... | |
 | John Rahn - 1994 - 404 pages
...rather than as a realm of beautiful objects awaiting contemplation. Tolstoy defines art as follows: Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that...certain external signs, hands on to others feelings that he has lived through, and that other people are infected by those feelings, and also experience... | |
 | Roy Harris - 1996 - 308 pages
...products of artistic genius. Perhaps the best known 'communicational' definition of art is Tolstoy's: Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one...external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by these feelings and also experience them.1 From the basic structure... | |
 | Mahatma Gandhi - 1997 - 290 pages
...for Tolstoy springs from an inner experience of the 'religious' perception of the meaning of life. 'Art is a human activity consisting in this, that...consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by these feelings and also experience... | |
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Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them. 
