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The first critical history of Wagner's concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk
and its impact on European modernism
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MODERNISM AFTER WAGNER
By Juliet Koss
University of Minnesota Press | 416 pages | 2010
ISBN 978-0-8166-5159-7| paperback| $29.50
ISBN 978-0-8166-5158-0| hardcover | $88.50
References to the Gesamtkunstwerk, a "total work of art," abound in
discussions of modern art and culture. In Modernism after Wagner,
Juliet Koss explores the history and legacy of Wagner's concept, laying
out its genealogy and the political, aesthetic, and cultural context
from which it emerged, and tracing its development and reception
through the 1930s.
"This book constitutes a major intervention in the study of modernism
both within, and well beyond, the fields of architecture and art
history. Modernism after Wagner traverses astonishingly diverse
terrain. Avoiding the elegiac register of recent studies, Juliet Koss
brings to an impossibly expansive subject a welcome historical
precision, laced with mordant wit." -Tim Barringer, Yale University
Juliet Koss is associate professor and chair of art history at Scripps
College in Claremont, California.
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's
webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/K/koss_modernism.html
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