What Is Art? What Is Art? What is Art? ( "Chto takoye iskusstvo?") is a book by Leo Tolstoy. It was completed in Russian in 1897 but first published in English due to difficulties with the Russian censors. Tolstoy cites the time, effort, public funds, and public respect spent on art and artists as well as the imprecision of general opinions on art as reason for writing the book. In his words, "it is difficult to say what is meant by art, and especially what is good, useful art, art for the sake of which we might condone such sacrifices as are being
Temporary Secretary Temporary Secretary "Temporary Secretary" is a song by Paul McCartney, featured on his 1980 album "McCartney II". In 2013, "Rolling Stone" ranked it the #36 all-time McCartney post-Beatles song, calling it a "cult favorite" and an "oddly catchy electro-pop nugget, about a slightly creepy-sounding guy looking to hire a temp." In 2014, "Temporary Secretary" was ranked as one of the greatest songs of all time by critics of "NME" magazine. They described it as "wonky electropop that didn't sound so much ahead of its time as out of it altogether." McCartney later said that he had had temporary secretaries, and