The Total Work of Art : : Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations / / ed. by David Imhoof, Anthony J. Steinhoff, Margaret Eleanor Menninger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Amidon, Kevin S.,; Anger, Jenny,; Applegate, Celia,; Calico, Joy H.,; Goodwin, Julia,; Heisler Jr., Wayne,; Imhoof, David,; Menninger, Margaret Eleanor,; Pederson, Sanna,; Rippey, Theodore F.,; Steinhoff, Anthony J.,; Trimingham, Melissa,; Vazsonyi, Nicholas,; Wlodarski, Amy Lynn,
• HerausgeberIn: Imhoof, David,; Menninger, Margaret Eleanor,; Steinhoff, Anthony J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

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.

Table of 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