Screen LibraryThe quest for the Gesamtkunstwerk and Richard Wagner /
"The Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), once a key concept in Wagner studies, has become problematic. This book sheds light on this conundrum by first tracing the development of the concept in the 19th century through selected examples, some of which include combinations of differ...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Published: |
Oxford University Press,
|
| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: | |
| Summary: |
"The Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), once a key concept in Wagner studies, has become problematic. This book sheds light on this conundrum by first tracing the development of the concept in the 19th century through selected examples, some of which include combinations of different art forms. It then focuses on the culmination of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Wagner's theories and in the practice of his late music dramas, of which Der Ring des Nibelungen is the most complete representation. Finally, the book contrasts the view of the Ring as a fusion of dramatic text and music with the 20th c |
| Carrier Form: | x, 287 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-281) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199325436 (hardback) : 019932543X (hardback) |
| Index Number: | ML410 |
| CLC: | J605.516 |
| Call Number: | J605.516/B878 |
| Contents: | Introduction: the nature of the quest -- The landscape garden -- Romantic drama and the visual arts -- Goethe's Faust: Gesamtkunstwerk or Universaltheater? -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theoretical approaches -- Moment and Motiv: critical approaches to the Ring cycle -- Analysis of the Erda scenes -- Adolphe Appia: a watershed in the evolution of the Gesamtkunstwerk -- Wieland Wagner: the Appia heritage and the Gesamtkunstwerk -- The centenary Ring: deconstruction and the Gesamtkunstwerk. |