The total work of art in European modernism / David Roberts
- Bib ID:
- 5806912
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Roberts, David, 1937-
- Description:
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- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©2011
- viii, 292 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780801450235
- 0801450233
- Series:
- Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Artwork of the Future
- 1.Refounding Society
- Ancients and Moderns: Rousseau's Civil Religion
- The Festivals of the French Revolution
- Revolution and Representation
- The Abyss of Political Foundation
- 2.The Destination of Art
- The Secularization of Art: Quatremere de Quincy
- Aesthetic Education: Schiller
- Aesthetic Revolution: Holderlin
- The Destiny of Art: Hegel
- 3.Prophets and Precursors: Paris 1830-1848
- Organic and Critical Epochs: Saint-Simon
- Musical Palingenesis: Mazzini and Balzac
- The Musical City: Berlioz
- Ancients and Moderns: Wagner
- 4.Staging the Absolute
- Modernism or the Long Nineteenth Century
- The Birth of Tragedy: Nietzsche
- The Great Work: Mallarme
- Dialectic of Enlightenment: From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century
- pt. II The Spiritual in Art
- 5.Religion and Art: Parsifal as Paradigm
- The Idea of Return
- Religion and Art
- The Profoundest Symbol: The Grail
- Contents note continued: The Theater to Come
- 6.The Symbolist Mystery
- Homage to the Gesamtkunstwerk
- The Ultimate Fiction: Mallarme's Book
- The Last Ecstasy: Scriabin's Mysterium
- Gnosis and Ecstasy
- 7.Gesamtkunstwerk and Avant-Garde
- The Avant-Garde: Analysis and Synthesis
- From Dionysus to Apollo: Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes
- The Spiritual in Art: Kandinsky and the Blaue Reiter
- The Crystal Cathedral: Bruno Taut and the Bauhaus
- 8.The Promised Land: Toward a Retotalized Theatre
- The Theatre Reform Movement
- World Theatre: Hofmannsthal and Claudel
- Theatre of Cruelty: Brecht and Artaud
- Synthesis of the Arts: A Typology
- pt. III The Sublime in Politics
- 9.National Regeneration
- The Community to Come
- Romain Rolland: Le theatre du peuple
- Gabriele d'Annunzio: Il fuoco
- The Nietzschean Sublime
- 10.Art and Revolution: The Soviet Union
- The Birth of the New Man
- Festivals of the Revolution
- Contents note continued: From Art to Life: The Russian Avant-Garde
- Stalin's Total Work of Art
- 11.The Will to Power as Art: The Third Reich
- The Avant-Garde and the Breakthrough to Totality
- Benjamin and the Aestheticization of Politics
- The State as Work of Art: Junger's Der Arbeiter
- Hitler's Triumph of the Will.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-281) and index.
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