Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The Total Work of Art; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I -- Foundations; Chapter 1 -- The Play's the Thing; Chapter 2 -- From Gesamtkuntstwerk to Music Drama; Chapter 3 -- Richard Wagner, Parsifal, and the Pursuit of Gesamtkunstwerk; Part II -- Articulations; Chapter 4 -- Epic Gesamtkunstwerk; Chapter 5 -- Gesamtkunstwerk, Gesaltung, and the Bauhaus Stage; Chapter 6 -- Exposing the Political Gesamtkunstwerk; Chapter 7 -- Reconciling the Three Graceful Hellenic Sisters -- Part III -- Inspirations; Chapter 8 -- The Translucent (Not: Transparent) Gesamtglaswerk.

Chapter 9 -- Quiet Audience, Roaring CrowdChapter 10 -- The Will to Heal; Chapter 11 -- Consuming Voices; Afterword: Gesamtkunstwerk as Epistemic Space; Select Bibliography; Index.

"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, Gesamtkunstwerk's 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 idea's 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."--Publisher description.

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