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What Is Art?

1897 short story by Leo Tolstoy
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What Is Art?

Summary

What Is Art? is a literary work[1]. What Is Art? has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • What Is Art? authored Leo Tolstoy[3].
  • What Is Art?'s instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • What Is Art?'s genre is essay[5].
  • What Is Art?'s language of work or name is recorded as Russian[6].
  • 1897 marks the founding of What Is Art?[7].
  • What Is Art? was released on 1897[8].
  • What Is Art?'s has edition or translation is recorded as Qu’est-ce que l’art ?[9].
  • What Is Art?'s has edition or translation is recorded as Qu’est-ce que l’art ?[10].
  • What Is Art?'s has edition or translation is recorded as What is art?[11].
  • What Is Art?'s has edition or translation is recorded as Q138507397[12].
  • What Is Art?'s topic's main category is recorded as Q64459333[13].
  • What Is Art?'s main subject is aesthetics[14].
  • What Is Art?'s form of creative work is recorded as short story[15].

Body

Authorship and Creation

What Is Art? authored Leo Tolstoy[3].

Publication

What Is Art? was published on 1897[8]. What Is Art?'s language of work or name is recorded as Russian[6]. Its genre is essay[5].

Subject and Themes

What Is Art?'s main subject is aesthetics[14].

Why It Matters

What Is Art? has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] What Is Art? is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Leo Tolstoy literary work

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4erRA
    Instance of → literary work
    Language of work or name → Russian
    Form of creative work → short story
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