... (513). He says that distinguishing real art from counterfeit art can be done simply by determining the "infectiousness of art" (514). Tolstoy claims that any piece of art, no matter how beautiful, intriguing, interesting, poetic, striking, or realistic cannot be defined as real unless it also maintains this quality of infectiousness. After defining the difference between real and counterfeit art, Tolstoy goes on to relay the difference between what classifies good and bad art. Tolstoy claims that good art is found in two categories. The first one is "religious art - transmitting both positive feelings of love of God and one's neighbor..." and the second one is "good universal art" which is so "free from superfluous detail that the story may be told to any circle and will be equally comprehensible and touching to everyone" (519). In comparison, he classifies bad art as art that is "comprehensible only to ...

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