scholarly journals The Synthesis of the Arts: From Ceremonial Ritual to “Total Work of Art”

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Brown ◽  
Ellen Dissanayake
Keyword(s):  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The Arts

The total work of art and totalitarianism

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Éric Michaud
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Democratic Revolution ◽  
The Third Reich

All the manifestos for a ‘total work of art’ after Wagner were political programmes: political, however, in a sense directly antithetical to the modern idea of the political. The goal of the total work of art was the formation of the people as a homogeneous political body, as the other of the social and political division, conflict and uncertainty inherent in the whole movement of democratic revolution since the 18th century. In each case the union or synthesis of the arts prefigures the reconciliation of the classes as the condition of the unity of the people. But who is this people that will realize itself in the total work? Is it the same people for the artists of the Bauhaus as it is for the leaders of the Third Reich? These are the questions I try to answer through an interrogation of the continuities and breaks in the re-workings of the Wagnerian concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the programmes of the Bauhaus and the policies of National Socialism.

scholarly journals Architecture and Art: La Ronchamp’s symbiosis as a ‘total work of art’

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Frances Dias ◽  
Maria João Durão
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Architectural Characteristics ◽  
Artistic Values

Abstract: Le Corbusier developed his own unique poetics of architecture, perceived and understood as an art. In La Ronchamp, due to his complete creative freedom, he found a space to express his most poetic and artistic views. The research paper thus analysis the Chapel as a case study, in order to clarify Corbusier’s artistic and architectural vision, ideals and driving principles: drawing firstly from the architectural characteristics that define the space, secondly defining an integrated set of principles that conceptualize the architecture as an art, and lastly, an analysis of the particularities that compose the chapel as a ‘total work of art’, analyzing the union of the arts, both in concept, form and meaning, and in the overall context of Corbusier’s unqiue theory. Thus, the research paper aims to understand and uncover how the poetics and emotional condition lives through Ronchamp: the meaning it encases, the artistic values is sustains and the timeless ways it recreates. The overall study has both practical and theoretical applications and implications for architects and artists with an interest in the integration of art and architecture, as well as the conceptual connections between the arts; a vital issue in the contemporary world for the definition of a more meaningful and sustainable environment.  Keywords: Art, Architecture, Le Corbusier, Principles, Poetry, Emotion. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.612

scholarly journals Influences of ancient Greek spirit on music romanticism as exemplifies in Richard Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk

Muzikologija ◽  
2005 ◽  
pp. 257-267
Author(s):  
Anastasia Siopsi
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Greek Drama ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future

The romantics' ideal of the arts' collaboration (Mischgedichte) finds its most substantial equivalent in Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) "total work of art" (Gesamtkunstwerk). This theory for the restoration of the 'lost' unity of arts was elaborated in many theoretical essays of Wagner and 'applied' in his music dramas. Unity of arts, as well as unity of arts with nature existed according to Wagner in Ancient Greece while drama was the epitome of all expressive elements of nature. This "new art of the future", which Wagner envisaged, would restore the 'wholeness' of ancient Greek drama. It is the purpose, therefore, of this study to analyze mainly from an aesthetic point of view the influences of ancient Greek spirit on romantic thought, by focusing on Wagner's work.

Book Review: The Total Work of Art

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art

scholarly journals Overgangens kunst. Modernitet og skepsis i Richard Wagners æstetik

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (111) ◽  
pp. 113-125
Author(s):  
Thomas Teilmann Damm
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Artistic Work ◽  
Creative Artists

TRANSITIONAL ART MODERNITY AND SCEPTICISM IN RICHARD WAGNER’S AESTHETICSRichard Wagner is unique among creative artists in that he published copious volumes of theoretical writings to accompany and explain his artistic work. The present paper probes these writings and asks why Wagner should feel the need to constantly explain and justify himself. The answer is found to lie, not so much in the psychological make-up of the artist, as in the very kernel of his aesthetic impulse: the sceptical rejection of tradition and convention, and the reclaiming of an authentic, “purely human”, artistic form. Wagner inhabits a position of ambivalent modernity: he demands the destruction of old totalities of meaning while simultaneously structuring new ones. Nietzsche branded it “the lie of the great style”, a more recent and sympathetic commentator (Richard Klein) has spoken of Wagner’s “pluralist modernism”. The present paper agrees with Theodor W. Adorno that the “total work of art” is indeed a “phantasmagoria” but finds that Wagner, in his theorizing about it, lays bare certain inescapable conditions, risks as well as possibilities, of art and expression in the modern world.

scholarly journals WAGNER - MITO E IMAGINAÇÃO NA ARTE TOTAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Paulo Alexandre Castro
Keyword(s):  
Essential Elements ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The Creation

The purpose of this brief essay is to outline what can be considered the combination of two essential elements in the realization of Wagner's works: the strength of the myth's plot and the imaginative process in the creation of the artwork. However, it is not a simple presentation of these elements, but how Wagner, when wishing to create the total work of art, is guided by a phenomenological thought.

The Little Magazine in the 1890s: Towards a “Total Work of Art”

2010 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-149
Author(s):  
Koenraad Claes ◽  
Marysa Demoor
Keyword(s):  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art
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