The Total Artwork in Expressionism: Art, Film, Literature, Theater, Dance, and Architecture, 1905-1925 Artist's Edition "A Toast to Memory"

"A Toast to Memory"

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The Total Artwork in Expressionism: Art, Film, Literature, Theater, Dance, and Architecture, 1905-1925 Artist's Edition "A Toast to Memory"From the publisher: First theorized by composer Richard Wagner, the total artwork, or "gesamtkunstwerk," proposed a synthesis of all arts towards a single, unified spectacle. Wagner's ambitious conception flowered in the early twentieth century throughout numerous avant gardes, particularly in German Expressionism, where art forms cross pollinated and collaborated to a remarkable degree. Past considerations of Expressionism have tended to focus only