Demonstrates how the lineage and legacies of Gesamtkunstwerk (the ideal of the "total work of art") extend well beyond German Romanticism. Eleven compact essays trace the idea's evolution in German-speaking Europe. Provides a broad perspective on a distinctively modern cultural form.
Demonstrates how the lineage and legacies of Gesamtkunstwerk (the ideal of the "total work of art") extend well beyond German Romanticism. Eleven compact essays trace the idea's evolution in German-speaking Europe. Provides a broad perspective on a distinctively modern cultural form.
Margaret Eleanor Menninger is NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Associate Professor of History at Texas State University. She has published articles on the history of cultural philanthropy in both the United States and Germany, and was a contributor to The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia. She is completing a book entitled A Serious Matter and True Joy: Philanthropy, the Arts, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Leipzig.
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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
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
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