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Modernism after Wagner / Juliet Koss.

Title
Modernism after Wagner / Juliet Koss.
Author
Koss, Juliet
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

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Description
xxix, 381 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 27 cm.
Summary
This is a critical history of Wagner's concept of the 'Gesamtkunstwerk' and its impact on European modernism. Koss explores the legacy of Wagner's concept, laying out its genealogy and the political, aesthetic, and cultural context from which it emerged.
Subject
  • Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 > Influence
  • Geschichte 1880-1930
  • Geschichte 1880-1980
  • Geschichte
  • 1800-1999
  • Geschichte 1900-2000
  • Geschichte 1800-1900
  • Geschichte
  • Modernism (Art)
  • Arts, Modern > 19th century
  • Arts, Modern > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-355) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The utopian Gesamtkunstwerk -- Building Bayreuth -- Empathy Abstracted -- The Nietzschean festival -- Retheatricalizing the theater -- The specter of cinema -- Bauhaus theater of human dolls -- Invisible Wagner.
ISBN
  • 9780816651580 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0816651582 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816651597 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0816651590 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009006979
OCLC
  • 310959652
  • SCSB-10076532
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library