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The Total Work of Art in European Modernism /
"In this groundbreaking book, David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I The artwork of the future
- Refounding society : Ancients and moderns: Rousseau's civil religion ; The festivals of the French Revolution ; Revolution and representation ; The abyss of political foundation
- The destination of art : The secularization of art: Quatremere de Quincy ; Aesthetic education: Schiller ; Aesthetic revolution: Hölderlin ; The destiny of art: Hegel
- Prophets and precursors: Paris 1830-1848 : Organic and critical epochs: Saint-Simon ; Musical palingenesis: Mazzini and Balzac ; The musical city: Berlioz ; Ancients and moderns: Wagner
- Staging the absolute : Modernism or the long nineteenth century ; The birth of tragedy: Nietzsche ; The great work: Mallarme ; Dialectic of enlightenment: from the nineteenth to the twentieth century
- Part II The spiritual in art : Religion and art: Parsifal as paradigm ; The idea of return ; Religion and art ; The profoundest symbol: the Grail ; The theater to come
- The symbolist mystery : Homage to the Gesamtkunstwerk ; The ultimate fiction: Mallarme's Book ; The last ecstasy: Scriabin's Mysterium ; Gnosis and ecstasy
- Gesamtkunstwerk and avant-garde : The avant-garde: analysis and synthesis ; From Dionysus to Apollo: Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes ; The spiritual in art: Kandinsky and the Blaue Reiter ; The crystal cathedral: Bruno Taut and the Bauhaus
- The promised land: toward a retotalized theatre : The theatre reform movement ; World theatre: Hofmannsthal and Claudel ; Theatre of cruelty: Brecht and Artaud ; Synthesis of the arts: a typology
- Part III The sublime in politics : National regeneration : The community to come ; Romain Rolland: Le theâtre du peuple ; Gabriele d'Annunzio: Il fuoco ; The Nietzschean sublime
- Art and revolution: the Soviet Union ; The birth of the new man ; Festivals of the revolution ; From art to life: the Russian avant-garde ; Stalin's total work of art
- The will to power as art: the Third Reich : The avant-garde and the breakthrough to totality ; Benjamin and the aestheticization of politics ; The state as work of art: Jünger's Der Arbeiter ; Hitler's Triumph of the will.