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Religion and Art

Religion and Art

Wagner, Richard
Ellis, William Ashton

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0803297645
ISBN13: 9780803297647
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Oct 1 1994
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion. With these words Richard Wagner began Religion and Art (1880), one of his most passionate essays. That passion made Wagner himself a central icon in the growing cult of art.

Wagner felt that he lived in an age of spiritual crisis. It can but rouse our apprehension, to see the progress of the art-of-war departing from the springs of moral force, and turning more and more to the mechanical, he wrote. In response to the frightening progress of dynamite and steel, Wagner adopted the role of the Tone Poet Seer, who reveals the inexpressible in concert halls and cleanses souls in waves of symhonic revelation.

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