Overview
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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Author: David Imhoof , Margaret Eleanor Menninger , Anthony J. Steinhoff
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781800730175
ISBN 10: 1800730179
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 13 August 2021
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword Celia Applegate Acknowledgements Introduction Margaret Eleanor Menninger PART I: FOUNDATIONS Chapter 1. The Play's the Thing: Schiller, Wagner, and Gesamtkunstwerk Nicholas Vazsonyi Chapter 2. From the Gesamtkunstwerk to the Music Drama Sanna Pederson Chapter 3. Richard Wagner, Parsifal, and the Pursuit of Gesamtkunstwerk Anthony J. Steinhoff PART II: ARTICULATIONS Chapter 4. Epic Gesamtkunstwerk Joy H. Calico Chapter 5. Gesamtkunstwerk, Gestaltung, and the Bauhaus Stage Melissa Trimingham Chapter 6. Exposing the Political Gesamtkunstwerk: Hanns Eisler's Nuit et Brouillard Amy Lynn Wlodarski Chapter 7. Reconciling the Three Graceful Hellenic Sisters : Wagner, Dance, and Song-Ballets , Set to Richard Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder Wayne Heisler, Jr. PART III: INSPIRATIONS Chapter 8. The Translucent (Not: Transparent) Gesamtglaswerk Jenny Anger Chapter 9. Quiet Audience, Roaring Crowd: The Aesthetics of Sound and the Traces of Bayreuth in Kuhle Wampe and Triumph of the Will Theodore F. Rippey Chapter 10. The Will to Heal: Gesamtkunstwerk and Memorial Music since 1945 Julia Goodwin and Margaret Eleanor Menninger Chapter 11. Consuming Voices: Musical Film and the Gesamtkunstwerk of Mass Culture David Imhoof Afterword: Gesamtkunstwerk as Epistemic Space Kevin S. Amidon Bibliography Index
Reviews
“Contributors are deft in negotiating and teasing out how aspects of the Gesamtkunstwerk shaped the German cultural landscape and at the same time mirrored the changing nature of politics and consumerism. This collection will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians interested in all aspects of German culture.” • Choice
Contributors are deft in negotiating and teasing out how aspects of the Gesamtkunstwerk shaped the German cultural landscape and at the same time mirrored the changing nature of politics and consumerism. This collection will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians interested in all aspects of German culture. * Choice
Author Information
David Imhoof is Professor of History at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Bloomsbury Press recently published his textbook So, About Modern Europe: A Conversational History from the Enlightenment to the Present. He is the author of Becoming a Nazi Town (Michigan, 2013) and co-editor of a special edition of Colloquia Germanica (2016) on sound studies. He is currently writing a history of the German record industry. Imhoof also directs the Music and Sound Studies Network for the German Studies Association.
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