The Total Work of Art

Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-017-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Reihe: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Imhoof, David

Menninger, Margaret Eleanor

Steinhoff, Anthony J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Imhoof, David
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.

Steinhoff, Anthony J.
Anthony J. Steinhoff is Associate Professor of History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. A specialist in modern German and French cultural and social history, he is the author of The Gods of the City: Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914 (Brill, 2008) and the translator ofRita Kuczynski’s Mauerblume: Ein Leben auf der Grenze (Wall Flower: A Life on the German Border; University of Toronto Press, 2015). He is currently writing a cultural history of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal and operatic culture in German-speaking Europe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Menninger, Margaret Eleanor
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.

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.