{"product_id":"the-total-work-of-art-foundations-articulations-inspirations-paperback","title":"The Total Work of Art: Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Imhoof\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMargaret Eleanor Menninger\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAnthony J. Steinhoff\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For two centuries, \u003cem\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/em\u003e--the ideal of the \"total work of art\"--has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner, \u003cem\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/em\u003e's lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism, as this wide-ranging collection demonstrates. In eleven compact chapters, scholars from a variety of disciplines trace the idea's evolution in German-speaking Europe, from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond, providing an uncommonly broad perspective on a distinctly modern cultural form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Eleanor Menninger\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of History at Texas State University and Executive Director of the German Studies Association. She has published on the history of cultural philanthropy in both the United States and Germany and was a contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia\u003c\/em\u003e. Her forthcoming book is entitled \u003cem\u003eA Serious Matter and True Joy: Philanthropy, the Arts, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Leipzig\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47413317009586,"sku":"9781800730175","price":59.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e8be6817bece5866b66c88ec73edabb2.webp?v=1778346608","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-total-work-of-art-foundations-articulations-inspirations-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}