ABSTRACT
And for Tolstoy it is the best and highest feelings that are expressed in and communicated through the finest works of art: the better the feeling transmitted the better is the art that transmits it.
2 Whenever something is transmitted from A to B it must be possible to distinguish what is transmitted from its mode of transmission; if information is what is transmitted, the message is not the medium. An expression theory of art of the transmission kind is therefore committed to giving an account of what general kinds of experience are transmitted by the different art-forms and what more specific kinds are transmitted by the different works of art within these forms-an account which must fully characterise the intrinsic nature of the experience without reference to the medium or work of art by which it is transmitted.
