Modernism after Wagner
- Author: Koss, Juliet
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Contents
- An Introduction to the Total Work of Art
- Ubiquitous Gesamtkunstwerk-Reverent Misunderstandings-Nationalism and Internationalism-Medium Specificity and Interdisciplinarity
- 1. The Utopian Gesamtkunstwerk
- Revolutionary Dresden-Origins and Sources-The Gesamtkunstwerk of the Future-The Audience of the Future
- 2. Building Bayreuth
- Theoretical Architecture-Gottfried Semper and Munich-The Bayreuth Festspielhaus-Efficient Auditorium-The Mystical Abyss
- 3. Empathy Abstracted
- Aesthetic Empathy-Empathy and Relief-Psychological Empathy-Empathy and Abstraction-Self-Estrangement and the Fear of Space
- 4. The Nietzschean Festival
- Georg Fuchs and the Cult of Nietzsche-The Darmstadt Artists' Colony-Peter Behrens, Theater Reformer-The Stage of the Future-The Prinzregententheater
- 5. Retheatricalizing the Theater
- Ausstellung Munchen 1908-The Munich Artists' Theater-Abstraction on a Shallow Stage-Adolf Hildebrand and Relief Sculpture-Critical Responses
- 6. The Specter of Cinema
- Projections in Munich-Advertising and Consumption-Hugo Munsterberg and the Photoplay-Reproducing Sound-Absorption and Distraction
- 7. Bauhaus Theater of Human Dolls
- Theater at the Bauhaus-Automata, Marionettes, and Dolls-Spectators and Estrangement-The Triadic Ballet-Costume Parties and the Gesamtkunstwerk
- 8. Invisible Wagner
- Intoxication and Addiction-Sorcery, Conducting, and Hypnosis-Theodor Adorno, Phantasmagorical History, and Failure-Dilettantism-Haunting Modernism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index