The total work of art : foundations, articulations, inspirations / edited by David Imhoof, Margaret Eleanor Menninger, and Anthony J. Steinhoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Imhoof, David Michael, 1970- editor.

Menninger, Margaret Eleanor, editor.

Steinhoff, Anthony J., editor.

Series:

Spektrum (New York, N.Y.) ; Volume 12.

SPEKTRUM: Publications of the German Studies Association ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, German--Philosophy.

Arts, German.

Senses and sensation in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

TABLES

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

I Foundations

CHAPTER 1 The Play’s the Thing Schiller, Wagner, and Gesamtkunstwerk

CHAPTER 2 From Gesamtkunstwerk to Music Drama

CHAPTER 3 Richard Wagner, Parsifal, and the Pursuit of Gesamtkunstwerk

II Articulations

CHAPTER 4 Epic Gesamtkunstwerk

CHAPTER 5 Gesamtkunstwerk, Gestaltung, and the Bauhaus Stage

CHAPTER 6 Exposing the Political Gesamtkunstwerk: Hanns Eisler’s Nuit et Brouillard

CHAPTER 7 Reconciling the “Three Graceful Hellenic Sisters” Wagner, Dance, and Song-Ballets Set to Richard Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder

III Inspirations

CHAPTER 8 The “Translucent (Not: Transparent)” Gesamtglaswerk

CHAPTER 9 Quiet Audience, Roaring Crowd: The Aesthetics of Sound and the Traces of Bayreuth in Kuhle Wampe and Triumph of the Will

CHAPTER 10 The Will to Heal: Gesamtkunstwerk and Memorial Music since 1945

CHAPTER 11 Consuming Voices: Musical Film and the Gesamtkunstwerk of Mass Culture

AFTERWORD Gesamtkunstwerk as Epistemic Space

Select Bibliography

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-234-5

1-78533-185-X

OCLC:

956990515