Chapter 4 of 46
CHAPTER III
The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? · Leo Tolstoy
CHAPTER III
Summary of various æsthetic theories and definitions, from Baumgarten to to-day 360
CHAPTER IV
Definitions of art founded on beauty--Taste not definable--A clear definition needed to enable us to recognize works of art 376
CHAPTER V
Definitions not founded on beauty--Tolstoï's definition--The extent and necessity of art--How people in the past have distinguished good from bad in art 383
CHAPTER VI
How art for pleasure has come into esteem--Religions indicate what is considered good and bad--Church Christianity--The Renaissance--Skepticism of the upper classes--They confound beauty with goodness 389
CHAPTER VII
An æsthetic theory framed to suit this view of life 396
CHAPTER VIII
Who have adopted it?--Real art needful for all men--Our art too expensive, too unintelligible, and too harmful for the masses--The theory of "the elect" in art 401