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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.

?Contributors are deft in negotiating and teasing out how aspects of the Gesamtkunstwerk shaped the German cultural landscape and at the same time mirrored the changing nature of politics and consumerism. This collection will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians interested in all aspects of German culture.? ? Choice

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List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Foreword

Celia Applegate

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Margaret Eleanor Menninger

PART I: FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 1. The Play?s the Thing: Schiller, Wagner, and Gesamtkunstwerk

Nicholas Vazsonyi

Chapter 2. From the Gesamtkunstwerk to the Music Drama

Sanna Pederson

Chapter 3. Richard Wagner, Parsifal, and the Pursuit of Gesamtkunstwerk

Anthony J. Steinhoff

PART II: ARTICULATIONS

Chapter 4. Epic Gesamtkunstwerk

Joy H. Calico

Chapter 5. Gesamtkunstwerk, Gestaltung, and the Bauhaus Stage

Melissa Trimingham

Chapter 6. Exposing the Political Gesamtkunstwerk: Hanns Eisler?s Nuit et Brouillard

Amy Lynn Wlodarski

Chapter 7. Reconciling the ?Three Graceful Hellenic Sisters?: Wagner, Dance, and ?Song-Ballets?, Set to Richard Strauss?s Vier letzte Lieder

Wayne Heisler, Jr.

PART III: INSPIRATIONS

Chapter 8. The ?Translucent (Not: Transparent)? Gesamtglaswerk

Jenny Anger

Chapter 9. Quiet Audience, Roaring Crowd: The Aesthetics of Sound and the Traces of Bayreuth in Kuhle Wampe and Triumph of the Will

Theodore F. Rippey

Chapter 10. The Will to Heal: Gesamtkunstwerk and Memorial Music since 1945

Julia Goodwin and Margaret Eleanor Menninger

Chapter 11. Consuming Voices: Musical Film and the Gesamtkunstwerk of Mass Culture

David Imhoof

Afterword: Gesamtkunstwerk as Epistemic Space

Kevin S. Amidon

Bibliography

Index