Stacy Mize Photography

I was reading this article,  Is the Art of Photography Dying Due to Digitalization?,  and was quite surprised in the information given. Specifically I was surprised to see the quoted definition of art by someone named Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), in short being “Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously by means of certain signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by those feelings and experience them.” Leo Tolstoy had a very constricted view of art, even referring to Shakespeare as a bad dramatist and not a true artist. This very definition of art given was somewhat confusing to me in that it implied that the importance lies within the action of feelings passed on to others placing the emphasis of importance on the emotion that is received by the observer.

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