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Modernism After Wagner

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Description for Modernism After Wagner Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 100 b&w illustrations, 14 colour plates. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 264 x 191 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1158.

References to the Gesamtkunstwerk, a "total work of art," abound in discussions of modern art and culture, often describing a seamless melding of a variety of art forms that overwhelm the emotions, impede critical thought, and mold a group of individuals into a powerless mass. Famously set forth by the composer Richard Wagner in 1849, the term has been applied to such disparate settings as the cinema palaces of Berlin in the 1920s and Andy Warhol's Factory scene in New York in the 1960s.

In Modernism after Wagner, Juliet Koss explores the history and legacy of Wagner's concept, laying out its ... Read more

Rigorously researched and highly accessible, Modernism after Wagner places the Gesamtkunstwerk at the heart of modern art and culture.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816651597
SKU
V9780816651597
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About Juliet Koss
Juliet Koss is associate professor and chair of art history at Scripps College and coordinator of the Joint Art History Program of the Claremont Colleges.

Reviews for Modernism After Wagner
“This is an extraordinary book: thoughtful, deft, and learned, it offers a compelling revisionist account of the history and destiny of the Gesamtkunstwerk. The implications for our understanding of the Gesamtkunstwerk are transformative: this book challenges us to rethink not only a conventional history, but our propensity to parrot a conventional party line of that history.” —David J. Levin, University ... Read more

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