The aesthetics of the total artwork : on borders and fragments / edited by Anke Finger and Danielle Follett.

Other author Finger, Anke K.
Other author Follett, Danielle, 1971-
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore [Md.] : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Descriptionviii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesRethinking theory
Rethinking theory (Baltimore, Md.) ^A1011209
Contents Dynamiting the Gesamtkunstwerk : an introduction to the aesthetics of the total artwork / Danielle Follett and Anke Finger -- Variations on totality : Romanticism and the total work of art / Olivier Schefer -- Tendency, disintegration, decay : stages of the aesthetics of the fragment from Friedrich Schlegel to Thomas Bernhard / Justus Fetscher -- "The completed work is a rejection of disintegration and destruction" : a plea for aesthetic unity / Jürgen Söring -- Tout et n'importe quoi : the total artwork and the aesthetics of chance / Danielle Follett -- Idea/imagination/dialogue : the total artwork and conceptual art / Anke Finger -- "And a loose community assembles" : an interview with Molly Nesbit / Danielle Follett -- What is a station? / Molly Nesbit, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and Rirkrit Tiravanija -- Form and reform : an interview with Mark Alizart / Danielle Follett -- The Gesamtkunstwerk and interactive multimedia / Randall Packer -- Invisible Wagner / Juliet Koss -- Music as imminent Gesamtkunstwerk : absolute music, synesthesia, and The lucky hand / Simon Shaw-Miller -- Avant-garde theater as total artwork? Media-theoretical reflections on the historical development of performing art forms / Christiane Heibach -- The drawing as total artwork? Image totality in Carl Einstein and Paul Klee / Reto Sorg -- Total artwork vs. revolution : art, politics, and temporalities in the expressionist architectural utopias and the Merzbau / Maria Stavrinaki -- The sorcerer's apprentice : László Moholy-Nagy and his Light prop for an electrical stage / Joyce Tsai -- Polyglot poetry : multilingualism and the aesthetics of the Gesamtkunstwerk / Rainer Guldin -- Singin' in the Marxist rain / Robert Kaufman -- Gesamtkunstwerk and Formelkomposition : the formal principles of the multiple work-totality in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Light / Ivanka Stoianova.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010001248
ISBN9780801895821 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0801895820 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks NX620 .A355 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold