| Description |
xii, 226 p. : ill., music |
| Notes |
Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 12, 2007). |
| Contents |
Cover -- The Total Work of Art -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Visual and textual credits -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The total work of art in an age of mechanical reproduction -- Defining the Gesamtkunstwerk -- The Romantic roots of the total work of art -- The labor of the Nibelungs -- Structural transformations -- Chapter 2 Total stage -- Two festivals -- Pilgrims to the mechanical hearth -- Into the mystic gulf -- Knights of the electric chalice -- The iconic and the crystalline -- Chapter 3 Total machine -- Double evocation -- Gropius and the crystalline Gesamtkunstwerk -- Schlemmer, Moholy-Nagy, and the organic-mechanical stage -- Total theatre or total decoration? -- Chapter 4 Total montage -- Driving on both sides of the road -- Unity without witchcraft -- Contrapuntal unity -- The Lindbergh Flight as Brechtian Gesamtkunstwerk -- Chapter 5 Total state -- The invisible pilot -- A chain of rings -- The new Meistersingers -- The new Beckmesser -- A new awakening -- Chapter 6 Total world -- Passage to America -- A trinity of wafers -- A joyous kingdom of play and semblance -- Tomorrow the world -- From Brunelde to Oklahoma -- Chapter 7 Total vacuum -- Mickey, Leni, Ludwig -- Total Warhol -- Vacuum salesman -- Warhol's final friend -- Chapter 8 Total immersion -- Fortress of pixels -- Cyber-arts and the Gesamtkunstwerk : Aspects of Gaia and Osmose -- Total entertainment: the Gates house and World of Warcraft -- The gardens of exile: Beyond Manzanar -- The digital dawn -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. UK : MyiLibrary, 2007 Available via World Wide Web. |
| Sujet |
Aesthetics
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Performing arts
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Popular culture.
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Mass media.
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Art -- History.
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| ISBN |
6610764441 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
9786610764440 (electronic bk.) |
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