| Description |
1 online resource. |
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data file |
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Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
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Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I Artwork of the future -- Refounding society : Ancients and moderns: Rousseau's civil religion ; Festivals of the French Revolution ; Revolution and representation ; Abyss of political foundation -- Destination of art : Secularization of art: Quatremère de Quincy ; Aesthetic education: Schiller ; Aesthetic revolution: Hölderlin ; Destiny of art: Hegel -- Prophets and precursors: Paris 1830-1848 : Organic and critical epochs: Saint-Simon ; Musical palingenesis: Mazzini and Balzac ; Musical city: Berlioz ; Ancients and moderns: Wagner -- Staging the absolute : Modernism or the long nineteenth century ; Birth of tragedy: Nietzsche ; Great work: Mallarmé ; Dialectic of enlightenment: from the nineteenth to the twentieth century -- Part II Spiritual in art : Religion and art: Parsifal as paradigm ; Idea of return ; Religion and art ; Profoundest symbol: the Grail ; Theater to come -- Symbolist mystery : Homage to the Gesamtkunstwerk ; Ultimate fiction: Mallarmé's Book ; Last ecstasy: Scriabin's Mysterium ; Gnosis and ecstasy -- Gesamtkunstwerk and avant-garde : Avant-garde: analysis and synthesis ; From Dionysus to Apollo: Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes ; Spiritual in art: Kandinsky and the Blaue Reiter ; Crystal cathedral: Bruno Taut and the Bauhaus -- Promised land: toward a retotalized theatre : Theatre reform movement ; World theatre: Hofmannsthal and Claudel ; Theatre of cruelty: Brecht and Artaud ; Synthesis of the arts: a typology -- Part III Sublime in politics : National regeneration : Community to come ; Romain Rolland: Le théâtre du peuple ; Gabriele d'Annunzio: Il fuoco ; Nietzschean sublime -- Art and revolution: the Soviet Union ; Birth of the new man ; Festivals of the revolution ; From art to life: the Russian avant-garde ; Stalin's total work of art -- Will to power as art: the Third Reich : Avant-garde and the breakthrough to totality ; Benjamin and the aestheticization of politics ; State as work of art: Jünger's Der Arbeiter ; Hitler's Triumph of the will. |
| Summary |
"In this groundbreaking book, David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in the service of social and cultural regeneration was a particularly German dream, which made Wagner and Nietzsche the other center of aesthetic modernism alongside Baudelaire and Mallarmé. The history and theory of the total work of art pose a series of questions not only to aesthetic modernism and its utopias but also to the whole epoch from the French Revolution to the totalitarian revolutions of the twentieth century. The total work of art indicates the need to revisit key assumptions of modernism, such as the foregrounding of the autonomy and separation of the arts at the expense of the countertendencies to the reunion of the arts; it cuts across the neat equation of avant-gardism with progress and deconstructs the familiar left-right divide between revolution and reaction, the modern and the antimodern. Situated at the interface between art, religion, and politics, the total work of art invites us to rethink the relationship between art and religion and art and politics in European modernism. In a major departure from the existing literature, David Roberts argues for twin lineages of the total work, a French revolutionary one and a German aesthetic one, which interrelate across the epoch of European modernism. These lineages culminate, Roberts shows, in the aesthetic and political radicalism of the avant-garde movements in response to the crisis of autonomous art and the accelerating political crisis of European societies from the 1890s forward."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Modernism (Aesthetics) |
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Arts, Modern -- Philosophy.
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Arts, Modern -- Philosophy. |
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Arts, Modern. |
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Arts, European -- 19th century -- Philosophy.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Philosophy. |
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Arts, European -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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ART -- European. |
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Arts, European. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics. |
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1800 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Roberts, David, 1937- The total work of art in European modernism 9780801450235 (paperback : alk. paper) (DLC) 2011021587 |
| ISBN |
9780801461453 (epub) |
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0801461456 |
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9780801450235 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780801460975 (electronic book) |
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0801460972 (electronic book) |
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0801450233 |
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9780801450235 |
| Standard No. |
10.7591/9780801460975 |
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