For two centuries; Gesamtkunstwerk-the ideal of the "total work of art"-has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice; spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner; Gesamtkunstwerks lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism; as this wide-ranging collection demonstrates. In eleven compact chapters; scholars from a variety of disciplines trace the ideas evolution in German-speaking Europe; from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond; providing an uncommonly broad perspective on a distinctly modern cultural form.
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