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Total Work of Art in European Modernism

Roberts, David
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780801450235
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Cornell University Press; Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

Forfatter
Roberts, David

Om bidragsyterne

David Roberts is Professor Emeritus of German at Monash University. He is the author of Art and Enlightenment, and coauthor of Dialectic of Romanticism, and A Critique of Modernism, among many other books.

Total Work of Art in European Modernism

Roberts, David
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk
Roberts, David
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk
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<p>Roberts portrays the total work of art not simply as a particular and peripheral genre of modern culture but rather as a fundamental idea that responded to the experience of desacralization in modernity... This book is impressive in sweep, thought-provoking in its challenges to accepted cultural schemas, and fascinating in the details it uncovers along the way. In short: a grand synthetic account that truly holds together. It represents an important contribution to the re-thinking of modernism.</p> (Monatshefte) <p>There is much to admire in Roberts' study of the total work of art and he convincingly makes the case for its importance.... Roberts' book provides a hugely insightful study of the total work of art. Most helpfully he uses this recurring motif as a way of breaking down conventional narratives about modernist politics, spirituality and aesthetic technique.</p> (Consciousness, Spirituality and the Arts) <p>With this volume, Roberts completes a trilogy devoted to European modernism. <i>Art and Enlightenment</i> (1991) offered a critical assessment of Adorno's theory of modern music, while <i>Dialectic of Romanticism</i> proposed a 'civil' alternative to Romantic nostalgia and Enlightenment progressivism. This new book, on the tangled legacy of Richard Wagner's <i>Gesamtkunstwerk</i> ('total work of art'), is equally original, in approach and detailed readings.... The author traces its origins to the French Revolution and German Romanticism, and then monitors the cultural resonance of Wagner's <i>Parsifal</i>, via Nietzsche and Mallarmé, which extends to the 20th-century avant-garde—particularly its odd mix of differentiation/synthesis of the arts, and its theatrical fusion of art and life. Finally he surveys the 'sublime' politics of Fascist spectacle, which Walter Benjamin famously reduced to the 'aestheticization of politics.' If the Nazis seem finally to have discredited the entire tradition, it nevertheless finds a spectral afterlife in contemporary theme parks and cyberspace. Ambitious, densely written, yet rewarding, this volume caps a remarkable achievement. Summing Up: Highly recommended.</p> (Choice) <p>Robert's comprehensive account is impressive, and the breadth of his references is matched by the pertinence and precision of his case studies from across European literature, art, architecture, music, and film...</p> (Modern Language Review)

In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in the service of social and cultural regeneration was a particularly German dream, which made Wagner and Nietzsche the other center of aesthetic modernism alongside Baudelaire and Mallarmé.

The history and theory of the total work of art pose a whole series of questions not only to aesthetic modernism and its utopias but also to the whole epoch from the French Revolution to the totalitarian revolutions of the twentieth century. The total work of art indicates the need to revisit key assumptions of modernism, such as the foregrounding of the autonomy and separation of the arts at the expense of the countertendencies to the reunion of the arts, and cuts across the neat equation of avant-gardism with progress and deconstructs the familiar left-right divide between revolution and reaction, the modern and the antimodern. Situated at the interface between art, religion, and politics, the total work of art invites us to rethink the relationship between art and religion and art and politics in European modernism.

In a major departure from the existing literature David Roberts argues for twin lineages of the total work, a French revolutionary and a German aesthetic, which interrelate across the whole epoch of European modernism, culminating in the aesthetic and political radicalism of the avant-garde movements in response to the crisis of autonomous art and the accelerating political crisis of European societies from the 1890s forward.

Les mer
Situating the Gesamtkunstwerk at the heart of European modernism.

IntroductionPart I: The Artwork of the Future1. Refounding Society
Ancients and Moderns: Rousseau's Civil Religion
The Festivals of the French Revolution
Revolution and Representation
The Abyss of Political Foundation2. The Destination of Art
The Secularization of Art: Quatremère de Quincy
Aesthetic Education: Schiller
Aesthetic Revolution: Hölderlin
The Destiny of Art: Hegel3. Prophets and Precursors: Paris 1830–1848
Organic and Critical Epochs: Saint-Simon
Musical Palingenesis: Mazzini and Balzac
The Musical City: Berlioz
Ancients and Moderns: Wagner4. Staging the Absolute
Modernism or the Long Nineteenth Century
The Birth of Tragedy: Nietzsche
The Great Work: Mallarmé
Dialectic of Enlightenment: From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth CenturyPart II: The Spiritual in Art5. Religion and Art: Parsifal as Paradigm
The Idea of Return
Religion and Art
The Profoundest Symbol: The Grail
The Theater to Come6. The Symbolist Mystery
Homage to the Gesamtkunstwerk
The Ultimate Fiction: Mallarmé's Book
The Last Ecstasy: Scriabin's Mysterium
Gnosis and Ecstasy7. 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 Bauhaus8. 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 TypologyPart III: The Sublime in Politics9. National Regeneration
The Community to Come
Romain Rolland: Le théâtre du peuple
Gabriele d'Annunzio: Il fuoco
The Nietzschean Sublime10. Art and Revolution: The Soviet Union
The Birth of the New Man
Festivals of the Revolution
From Art to Life: The Russian Avant-Garde
Stalin's Total Work of Art11. 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: Jünger's Der Arbeiter
Hitler's Triumph of the WillConclusion
Bibliography
Index

Les mer
A series edited by Peter Uwe Hohendahl and published jointly by Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Series editor: Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Cornell University Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought provides a new publishing model for the best new English-language book manuscripts in German literature, criticism, and cultural studies and translations of important German-language works. Signale construes "modern" in the broadest terms: from post-medieval Frühe Neuzeit to post-modern present. Home to a range of interdisciplinary and theoretical work concerned with this extended modernity, the series will also build focus clusters in areas of German Studies scholarship that have become increasingly difficult to place in the North American publishing context, but which remain fundamental to the health of the discipline. Work on the early modern period – Humanism, Baroque, Enlightenment – will form one such focus area; literary studies of the work of individual authors will be another. One goal is better integration into a broader interdisciplinary understanding of German studies of periods and scholarly genres that are vulnerable to marginalization. Signale books are published under a joint imprint of Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library in electronic and print formats. Manuscript submissions to Signale undergo the same rigorous editorial and peer review as Cornell University Press monographs published in the traditional manner. Publication of Signale books is supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Individuals interested in having their project considered for inclusion in Signale are asked to send a cover letter and a 3- to 5-page prospectus that summarizes the book project, describes its relationship to existing scholarship, and identifies its likely audience. The prospectus should include a chapter outline and specify the length of the manuscript (in words); if the manuscript is not yet completed, a time frame for completion should be included. The letter and prospectus should be sent in electronic form (MS Word) to the managing editor: Kizer Walker Managing Editor, Signale Series Cornell University Library 310 Uris Library Ithaca, NY 14853 email: kw33@cornell.edu For more information about Signale, visit the series website: http://signale.cornell.edu/
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<p>Roberts portrays the total work of art not simply as a particular and peripheral genre of modern culture but rather as a fundamental idea that responded to the experience of desacralization in modernity... This book is impressive in sweep, thought-provoking in its challenges to accepted cultural schemas, and fascinating in the details it uncovers along the way. In short: a grand synthetic account that truly holds together. It represents an important contribution to the re-thinking of modernism.</p> (Monatshefte) <p>There is much to admire in Roberts' study of the total work of art and he convincingly makes the case for its importance.... Roberts' book provides a hugely insightful study of the total work of art. Most helpfully he uses this recurring motif as a way of breaking down conventional narratives about modernist politics, spirituality and aesthetic technique.</p> (Consciousness, Spirituality and the Arts) <p>With this volume, Roberts completes a trilogy devoted to European modernism. <i>Art and Enlightenment</i> (1991) offered a critical assessment of Adorno's theory of modern music, while <i>Dialectic of Romanticism</i> proposed a 'civil' alternative to Romantic nostalgia and Enlightenment progressivism. This new book, on the tangled legacy of Richard Wagner's <i>Gesamtkunstwerk</i> ('total work of art'), is equally original, in approach and detailed readings.... The author traces its origins to the French Revolution and German Romanticism, and then monitors the cultural resonance of Wagner's <i>Parsifal</i>, via Nietzsche and Mallarmé, which extends to the 20th-century avant-garde—particularly its odd mix of differentiation/synthesis of the arts, and its theatrical fusion of art and life. Finally he surveys the 'sublime' politics of Fascist spectacle, which Walter Benjamin famously reduced to the 'aestheticization of politics.' If the Nazis seem finally to have discredited the entire tradition, it nevertheless finds a spectral afterlife in contemporary theme parks and cyberspace. Ambitious, densely written, yet rewarding, this volume caps a remarkable achievement. Summing Up: Highly recommended.</p> (Choice) <p>Robert's comprehensive account is impressive, and the breadth of his references is matched by the pertinence and precision of his case studies from across European literature, art, architecture, music, and film...</p> (Modern Language Review)

In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in the service of social and cultural regeneration was a particularly German dream, which made Wagner and Nietzsche the other center of aesthetic modernism alongside Baudelaire and Mallarmé.

The history and theory of the total work of art pose a whole series of questions not only to aesthetic modernism and its utopias but also to the whole epoch from the French Revolution to the totalitarian revolutions of the twentieth century. The total work of art indicates the need to revisit key assumptions of modernism, such as the foregrounding of the autonomy and separation of the arts at the expense of the countertendencies to the reunion of the arts, and cuts across the neat equation of avant-gardism with progress and deconstructs the familiar left-right divide between revolution and reaction, the modern and the antimodern. Situated at the interface between art, religion, and politics, the total work of art invites us to rethink the relationship between art and religion and art and politics in European modernism.

In a major departure from the existing literature David Roberts argues for twin lineages of the total work, a French revolutionary and a German aesthetic, which interrelate across the whole epoch of European modernism, culminating in the aesthetic and political radicalism of the avant-garde movements in response to the crisis of autonomous art and the accelerating political crisis of European societies from the 1890s forward.

Les mer
Situating the Gesamtkunstwerk at the heart of European modernism.

IntroductionPart I: The Artwork of the Future1. Refounding Society
Ancients and Moderns: Rousseau's Civil Religion
The Festivals of the French Revolution
Revolution and Representation
The Abyss of Political Foundation2. The Destination of Art
The Secularization of Art: Quatremère de Quincy
Aesthetic Education: Schiller
Aesthetic Revolution: Hölderlin
The Destiny of Art: Hegel3. Prophets and Precursors: Paris 1830–1848
Organic and Critical Epochs: Saint-Simon
Musical Palingenesis: Mazzini and Balzac
The Musical City: Berlioz
Ancients and Moderns: Wagner4. Staging the Absolute
Modernism or the Long Nineteenth Century
The Birth of Tragedy: Nietzsche
The Great Work: Mallarmé
Dialectic of Enlightenment: From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth CenturyPart II: The Spiritual in Art5. Religion and Art: Parsifal as Paradigm
The Idea of Return
Religion and Art
The Profoundest Symbol: The Grail
The Theater to Come6. The Symbolist Mystery
Homage to the Gesamtkunstwerk
The Ultimate Fiction: Mallarmé's Book
The Last Ecstasy: Scriabin's Mysterium
Gnosis and Ecstasy7. 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 Bauhaus8. 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 TypologyPart III: The Sublime in Politics9. National Regeneration
The Community to Come
Romain Rolland: Le théâtre du peuple
Gabriele d'Annunzio: Il fuoco
The Nietzschean Sublime10. Art and Revolution: The Soviet Union
The Birth of the New Man
Festivals of the Revolution
From Art to Life: The Russian Avant-Garde
Stalin's Total Work of Art11. 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: Jünger's Der Arbeiter
Hitler's Triumph of the WillConclusion
Bibliography
Index

Les mer
A series edited by Peter Uwe Hohendahl and published jointly by Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Series editor: Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Cornell University Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought provides a new publishing model for the best new English-language book manuscripts in German literature, criticism, and cultural studies and translations of important German-language works. Signale construes "modern" in the broadest terms: from post-medieval Frühe Neuzeit to post-modern present. Home to a range of interdisciplinary and theoretical work concerned with this extended modernity, the series will also build focus clusters in areas of German Studies scholarship that have become increasingly difficult to place in the North American publishing context, but which remain fundamental to the health of the discipline. Work on the early modern period – Humanism, Baroque, Enlightenment – will form one such focus area; literary studies of the work of individual authors will be another. One goal is better integration into a broader interdisciplinary understanding of German studies of periods and scholarly genres that are vulnerable to marginalization. Signale books are published under a joint imprint of Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library in electronic and print formats. Manuscript submissions to Signale undergo the same rigorous editorial and peer review as Cornell University Press monographs published in the traditional manner. Publication of Signale books is supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Individuals interested in having their project considered for inclusion in Signale are asked to send a cover letter and a 3- to 5-page prospectus that summarizes the book project, describes its relationship to existing scholarship, and identifies its likely audience. The prospectus should include a chapter outline and specify the length of the manuscript (in words); if the manuscript is not yet completed, a time frame for completion should be included. The letter and prospectus should be sent in electronic form (MS Word) to the managing editor: Kizer Walker Managing Editor, Signale Series Cornell University Library 310 Uris Library Ithaca, NY 14853 email: kw33@cornell.edu For more information about Signale, visit the series website: http://signale.cornell.edu/
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780801450235
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Cornell University Press; Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

Forfatter
Roberts, David

Om bidragsyterne

David Roberts is Professor Emeritus of German at Monash University. He is the author of Art and Enlightenment, and coauthor of Dialectic of Romanticism, and A Critique of Modernism, among many other books.

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