Munich and Theatrical Modernism
Title | Munich and Theatrical Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Jelavich |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 436 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674588356 |
This is the first cultural exploration of playwriting, directing, acting, and theater architecture in fin-de-siegrave;cle Munich. Peter Jelavich examines the commercial, political, and cultural tensions that fostered modernism's artistic revolt against the classical and realistic modes of nineteenth-century drama.
The Total Work of Art in European Modernism
Title | The Total Work of Art in European Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | David Roberts |
Publisher | Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2011-11-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0801460972 |
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.
Banned in Berlin
Title | Banned in Berlin PDF eBook |
Author | Gary D. Stark |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857453114 |
Imperial Germany's governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that of its Western neighbors, but still not broad enough to prevent the literary community from challenging and subverting many of the social norms the state was most determined to defend. This study is the first systematic analysis in any language of state censorship of literature and theater in imperial Germany (1871-1918). To assess the role that formal state controls played in German literary and political life during this period, it examines the intent, function, contested legal basis, institutions, and everyday operations of literary censorship as well as its effectiveness and its impact on authors, publishers, and theater directors.
Russian Futurist Theatre
Title | Russian Futurist Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Leach |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2018-03-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474402453 |
Russian Futurist Theatre explores is the first book to comprehensively uncover the Russian futurist theatre in all its virtuosity and diversity.
Revolution in the Theatre
Title | Revolution in the Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Fuchs |
Publisher | Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
German Modernism
Title | German Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Frisch |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 2005-07-25 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520243013 |
In this volume the author explores the relationships between music and early modernism in the Austro-German sphere.
Stage Fright
Title | Stage Fright PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Puchner |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2002-08-31 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780801868559 |
An exploration of the conflict between avant-garde theatre and modernism. It shows that modernism's ambivalence about the theatre was shared by playwrights and directors and thus was a productive force responsible for some great achievements in dramatic literature and theatre.