# Appendices explained — What Is Art?

> Chapter companion for What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy.

## What happens

The appendices provide supplementary material, including a translation of an excerpt from a letter by Richard Wagner and a translation of a poem by Baudelaire, which illustrate the aesthetic theories discussed in the main text.

## Character check-ins

### Richard Wagner

Excerpt from a letter by Wagner is included as an appendix.

### Charles Baudelaire

A poem by Baudelaire is translated and included as an appendix.

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