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The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork: On Borders and Fragments(Rethinking Theory)

The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork: On Borders and Fragments(Rethinking Theory)


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In The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork, artists, curators, and scholars from many countries and fields offer new ways of understanding the history and contemporary importance of the idea of the total artwork, or Gesamtkunstwerk. The term " Gesamtkunstwerk" was introduced in the romantic period. It describes the desire for and practice of combining various art forms into a whole, such as performances that combine text, visual arts, music, dance, and architecture. Richard Wagner was one of the early theorists of the concept, inspiring many modernist artists; yet, due to his ideological significance for the Third Reich, the concept has frequently been associated with totalitarianism since the Second World War. Nonetheless, artistic practice has continued to incorporate all-inclusive tendencies, even while avoiding the term "total artwork." The contributors to this volume challenge us to think again about the total artwork, daring to suggest that it is alive and well, that it informs current art in ways that are deep, meaningful, contentious, and provocative. The essays come from authors steeped in literary culture, the world of art, philosophy, and music theory. Such diverse perspectives can only stimulate debate in the academy and beyond about the history of the Gesamtkunstwerk and open up paths that may be followed in its future.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Dynamiting the Gesamtkunstwerk: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of the Total Artwork
Part I: Aesthetic Considerations: Fragment, Unity, Chance, Idea
Chapter 2. Variations on Totality: Romanticism and the Total Work of Art
Chapter 3. Tendency, Disintegration, Decay: Stages of the Aesthetics of the Fragment from Friedrich Schlegel to Thomas Bernhard
Chapter 4. "The Completed Work Is a Rejection of Disintegration and Destruction": A Plea for Aesthetic Unity
Chapter 5. Tout et N'importe Quoi: The Total Artwork and the Aesthetics of Chance
Chapter 6. Idea/Imagination/Dialogue: The Total Artwork and Conceptual Art
Chapter 7. "And a Loose Community Assembles": An Interview with Molly Nesbit
Chapter 8. Form and Reform: An Interview with Mark Alizart
Part II: On Defining and Defying Borders: Genres and Disciplines
Chapter 9. The Gesamtkunstwerk and Interactive Multimedia
Chapter 10. Invisible Wagner
Chapter 11. Music as Imminent Gesamtkunstwerk: Absolute Music, Synesthesia, and The Lucky Hand
Chapter 12. Avant-Garde Theater as Total Artwork? Media-Theoretical Reflections on the Historical Development of Performing Art Forms
Chapter 13. The Drawing as Total Artwork? Image Totality in Carl Einstein and Paul Klee
Chapter 14. Total Artwork vs. Revolution: Art, Politics, and Temporalities in the Expressionist Architectural Utopias and the Merzbau
Chapter 15. The Sorcerer's Apprentice: László Moholy-Nagy and His Light Prop for an Electrical Stage
Chapter 16. Polyglot Poetry: Multilingualism and the Aesthetics of the Gesamtkunstwerk
Chapter 17. Singin' in the Marxist Rain
Chapter 18. Gesamtkunstwerk and Formelkomposition: The Formal Principles of the Multiple Work-Totality in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Light
Notes
List of Contributors
Index



About the Author :
Anke Finger is an associate professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut. Danielle Follett is at the Universite Paris-VIII (Saint Denis).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801895821
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 480
  • Series Title: Rethinking Theory
  • Sub Title: On Borders and Fragments
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0801895820
  • Publisher Date: 28 Mar 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Spine Width: 31 mm
  • Weight: 771 gr


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