The Transformative Aesthetics of the Gesamtkunstwerk/Total Work of Art as the Specter Haunting Modernism

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-603
Author(s):  
Erika Fischer-Lichte
Keyword(s):  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art

Book Review: The Total Work of Art

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art

scholarly journals Overgangens kunst. Modernitet og skepsis i Richard Wagners æstetik

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (111) ◽  
pp. 113-125
Author(s):  
Thomas Teilmann Damm
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Artistic Work ◽  
Creative Artists

TRANSITIONAL ART MODERNITY AND SCEPTICISM IN RICHARD WAGNER’S AESTHETICSRichard Wagner is unique among creative artists in that he published copious volumes of theoretical writings to accompany and explain his artistic work. The present paper probes these writings and asks why Wagner should feel the need to constantly explain and justify himself. The answer is found to lie, not so much in the psychological make-up of the artist, as in the very kernel of his aesthetic impulse: the sceptical rejection of tradition and convention, and the reclaiming of an authentic, “purely human”, artistic form. Wagner inhabits a position of ambivalent modernity: he demands the destruction of old totalities of meaning while simultaneously structuring new ones. Nietzsche branded it “the lie of the great style”, a more recent and sympathetic commentator (Richard Klein) has spoken of Wagner’s “pluralist modernism”. The present paper agrees with Theodor W. Adorno that the “total work of art” is indeed a “phantasmagoria” but finds that Wagner, in his theorizing about it, lays bare certain inescapable conditions, risks as well as possibilities, of art and expression in the modern world.

scholarly journals WAGNER - MITO E IMAGINAÇÃO NA ARTE TOTAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Paulo Alexandre Castro
Keyword(s):  
Essential Elements ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The Creation

The purpose of this brief essay is to outline what can be considered the combination of two essential elements in the realization of Wagner's works: the strength of the myth's plot and the imaginative process in the creation of the artwork. However, it is not a simple presentation of these elements, but how Wagner, when wishing to create the total work of art, is guided by a phenomenological thought.

The Little Magazine in the 1890s: Towards a “Total Work of Art”

2010 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-149
Author(s):  
Koenraad Claes ◽  
Marysa Demoor
Keyword(s):  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art

Toward a Total Work of Art

Art Scents ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 158-177
Author(s):  
Larry Shiner
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Music ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Experimental Art ◽  
Music Score ◽  
Theater Production ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Successful Integration

Chapter 9 begins with the idea of the total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk) and considers examples of odors in theater from the Renaissance to the present, arguing that the inclusion of odors in some types of theater production is appropriate. In the case of film, the chapter discusses the difficulties faced by the first serious attempts in the 1950s and the handful of recent efforts, arguing that the combination of images with sound is able to suggests odors, whereas actual odors are likely to create more puzzles than they are worth, except in the case of highly experimental “art house” films. In the case of music, the chapter focuses on Green Aria: A Scent Opera, presented at the Guggenheim in 2009, a work that combined narrative, odors, and an electronic music score and marked a decisive step toward the successful integration of actual smells with music and narrative.

The Total Work of Art

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Wilson Smith
Keyword(s):  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art
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