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The Total Work of Art: Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations

The Total Work of Art: Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations

Imhoof, David
Menninger, Margaret Eleanor
Steinhoff, Anthony J.

Hardcover

Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association, Book 12

PhilosophyArt HistoryMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1785331841
ISBN13: 9781785331848
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jul 1 2016
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk--the ideal of the total work of art--has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner, Gesamtkunstwerk's lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism, as this wide-ranging collection demonstrates. In eleven compact chapters, scholars from a variety of disciplines trace the idea's evolution in German-speaking Europe, from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond, providing an uncommonly broad perspective on a distinctly modern cultural form.

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