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	Gesamtkunstwerk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art", or "complete-art work") is a German term attributed to the German opera composer Richard Wagner which refers to an operatic performance which encompasses music, theater, and the visual arts.
		He felt that in ancient Greek tragedy, these had been fused, but at some point they drifted apart — he was critical of current opera which he felt emphasized the music too heavily and did not contain quality drama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gesamtkunstwerk (199 words)

	Time Space Texture - TSTEX
		This was believed to be the case during the last decades of the nineteenth century as the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk evolved within the Zeitgeist of time and space that permeated European artistic thought at this time.
		In the spirit of that age, the Gesamtkunstwerk was believed to constitute a fusion of all arts, that would exhibit profound aesthetic resonance and even present itself as a metaphysical epiphany.
		As people become more used to Gesamtkunstwerk in which the motion of a sound source becomes an important and expected component of a piece, listeners will come to desire this in situations where there is no visual media.
	oldsite.vislab.usyd.edu.au /gallery/music/alyons/gestalt.htm (2803 words)

	Interviewstream » Blog Archive » Joseph Nechvatal
		JN: The concept of the gesamtkunstwerk (total-artwork) is a proposition rooted in the neo-Platonic heritage of Romanticism.
		This sense of the gesamtkunstwerk as inexorable entirety is the objective and means of total-immersion, but it also recedes backwards into prehistory where the ideal of total-immersion begins as inexorable entirety for me, well before the supposed Greek unity with which Wagner began his theory.
		For example, this gesamtkunstwerk ideal of “breaking down of distinction” is detectable in some aspects of Fluxus and Actionism and clearly in the Happening movement and developments in the Expanded Arts which flourished throughout the 1960s and 1970s and in today’s Art Installation Movement.
	interviewstream.zkm.de /?p=5 (5629 words)

	Untitled
		Just as this gesamtkunstwerk ideal of breaking down distinctions was detectable in some aspects of Fluxus and Actionism and clearly in the Happening movement and developments in the Expanded Arts which flourished throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
		If one conceives of the gesamtkunstwerk as a fusion between all of the arts, as Wagner did when he first published it, its weakness as an aesthetic ideal becomes immediately obvious.
		In it Henri adapts the term gesamtkunstwerk in historically contextualizing a stream of art in the 1960s and early-1970s as work which "sets out to dominate, even overwhelm; flooding the spectator/hearer with sensory impressions of different kinds.
	www.eyewithwings.net /nechvatal/foreman.html (1906 words)

	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
		Gesamtkunstwerk (German, 'united-art work') was an ideal put forward in late-19th-century Germany, and was concerned above all with the performing arts.
		The theory was that works of art should be created in which all the participating arts should have equal status: not just words and music (about whose status in opera, relative to one another, there had been centuries of argument), but design, lighting, production and any other activity essential to the show.
		In the modern era, this kind of approach has been widely used by pop and rock groups, electronics and lasers making possible effects which neither Scriabin nor Wagner could have imagined even in their most technicolor dreams.
	www.bloomsbury.com /ARC/detail.asp?EntryID=102150&bid=2 (194 words)

	Gesamtkunstwerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A compilation of digital technology and classic art forms as an intermedial structure in a single project; which shapes the contents and storyboard of the whole and at the same time refers to the changes in traditional art forms.
		The actual narratives are left open in a storyboard of subjective interest and experiment, and that leads to a logical step further in the definition of a total artwork: The user's activity and implemented ways to interact are the necessary keys to the completion of the work as being "total".
		Finally the "Gesamtkunstwerk" proceeds from the question of multi structured meaning to multi functional perception within a metaphorical shift of realities and identities.
	www.hgb-leipzig.de /~sermon/zapp/caa.html (329 words)

	Guggenheim Museum - Press Office - The Total Work of Art Lecture Series
		The 19th century witnessed the birth of art forms that sought to address all of the senses and to encompass many forms of experience.
		The idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk first proposed in the late 1840s by German composer Richard Wagner, envisioned a fusion of all arts, including the visual arts, architecture, dance, music, sculpture and theatre.
		Gesamtkunstwerk represents not only a synthesis of various techniques, media, and academic disciplines, but also a conceptualization of art as a means for dialogue with the viewer.
	www.guggenheim.org /press_releases/release_17.html (560 words)

	Gesamtkunstwerk and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gesamtkunstwerk and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
		The Wachowski brothers Gesamtkunstwerk isn't really anything new, but it is uncommon that it's attempted with such sincerity.
		And both deserve to be behind the counter, where kids can't get at them unless Mom and Dad make the informed decision that what's inside the package is okay for their youngsters.
	webpages.charter.net /jwsalzer/rants/totalart.html (864 words)

	A total Mishap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In medieval Europe, the total artwork, or gesamtkunstwerk (as coined by our Teutonic friends), was an obsession culminating in elaborate pageants involving as many disciplines as they could possibly lump together.
		It is an amusing reality that in the 20th century, the total work is perhaps most fully realized in the form of the musical, which utilizes the widest range of disciplines to create a finished product.
		The pursuit of the gesamtkunstwerk, however, has one significant element without which much of the popular art of our century could not have been made: teamwork.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/090497/art.html (472 words)

	The politics of derestoration: the Aegina pediments and the German confrontation with the past. - Art Journal - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An effective Gesamtkunstwerk is meant to collapse the differentiation provided by time and space.
		The ceremonies on the square blended 1923 with the present of the late 1930s, implying that the men in the sarcophagi were still "here" and suggesting that both the dead and those present in the square were sentries answering the same roll call.
		Borrowings from 1923, from the Munich of Ludwig I, and from ancient Greece made the Nazi Konigsplatz a richly evocative Gesamtkunstwerk, one in which every part of the ensemble was endowed with meaning.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:17326654&refid=holomed_1 (4036 words)

	We the Blog: Secretary Interview II
		I was fascinated early on by Wagner's approach to the theater, he could not fully realize his work until he had completely overhauled the "platform" of the opera house, creating a medium for immersing and directing the full attention of the viewer on the illusionary or 'virtual' space of the theatrical stage.
		With US DAT, I was thinking about the total collapse of the fourth wall, that imaginary line between audience and the stage (still sacred in Wagner's theater), in order to extrude the work from the stage into the space of the "real world," to dissolve the distinction between the two.
		This is to me is a further implementation of the Gesamtkunstwerk, in which the totalization of the experience of art is one in which the "real world" is transformed using techniques of media and illusion.
	wetheblog.org /archive/000071.html (566 words)

	Die Stimme der Energie: Toward an Interpretation of the Gesamtkunstwerk of Kraftwerk
		This juxtaposition of new and old ideas is reflected in the album’s cover, which depicts a bulky, aged Mercedes’ passing a then-current Volkswagen traveling in the opposite direction.
		The 1975 recording Radioaktivität was the first of two albums in the Kraftwerk Gesamtkunstwerk to be based around a single underlying concept—in this instance, an evaluation and celebration of the characteristics and potential of power generated by radioactivity and mass communication made possible through radio.
		It is a minimalist piece, carried rhythmically by the very realistic, electronically generated sound of footsteps—a sonic expression of the sojourn of the song’s only character through the hall of mirrors (0:00-0:22).
	kebnekajse.tripod.com /stimme.html (9740 words)

	Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center - 2005-06 Broadcasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		All of Wagner's later operas (The Ring, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, and Parsifal) are based on a concept of the Music Drama as a universal art form, GESAMTKUNSTWERK, in which all the constituent arts are transfigured, sacrificing their individual identity and some of their special characteristics for the new association.
		In Wagner's theory of Gesamtkunstwerk, myths are an ideal subject not merely because they're entertaining, but also because they are significant or symbolic.
		The meaning of a myth is expressed in poetry, but it is inevitably impelled to song, since only music is capable of conveying the intensity of feeling to which the ideas of the poem give rise.
	www.operainfo.org /broadcast/operaBackground.cgi?id=24&language=1 (317 words)

	Tulse Luper Database: Peter Greenaway, the New Media Object and the Art of Exhaustion by Benjamin Noys
		His irony is directed against the “totalitarian” ambitions of both these modes and he always insists upon the troubling “surplus” or remainder that is put into play by any form of classification.
		This offers a critique of the political Gesamtkunstwerk that, in Nazism's appropriation of Wagner or in the complex relationship between Eisenstein and Stalinism, aims at producing the State as total (and totalitarian) work of art (Lacoue-Labarthe 17).
		The new modern or postmodern name for the political Gesamtkunstwerk is globalisation, which Greenaway resists through his simulation of a world history in The Tulse Luper Suitcase (Oosterling 35).
	www.imageandnarrative.be /tulseluper/noys.htm (3696 words)

	Gesamtkunstwerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gesamtkunstwerk, or "total design," implies designing every detail of a whole so it becomes, in a sense, greater than the sum of its parts.
		In a building, this would mean not only designing plans and elevations.
		Every detail must be considered - including furniture, finished cabinetry, finished trim - extending to the environment outside of the building as well, so as to give integrity and harmony throughout.
	www.teiki.com /gesamtku.htm (67 words)

	Multimedia – From Wagner to Virtual Reality
		But he may not have realized that his proposal had roots in the theories of the19th century German opera composer, Richard Wagner.
		In 1849, Wagner introduced the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or Total Artwork, in an essay called "The Artwork of the Future." It would be difficult to overstate the power of this idea, or its influence.
		WagnerÕs description of the Gesamtkunstwerk is one of the first attempts in modern art to establish a practical, theoretical system for the comprehensive integration of the arts.
	www.artmuseum.net /w2vr/overture/integration_1.html (1073 words)

	Hannah Born (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the most well known eras of deep expression within Opera is the Romantic period and Richard Wagner is one great source of such fervor.
		It was through these pieces, and others, that he introduced what was mentioned earlier: “Gesamtkunstwerk (‘total work of art’)”.
		Through his works and style, Wagner did not just change the face of Opera through the invention of what is described as a ”Leitmotive” and through the theory called “Gesamtkunstwerk.” He changed the world.
	lancer.longwood.edu /portfolio/heborn/wagnerpaper.htm (1305 words)

	Paul Bosch's Worship Workbench - Worship as Gesamtkunstwerk: A Footnote on Christian Worship, the Virtual, and the Real ...
		The arts complex itself is a grand artistic synthesis --an opera, or Gesamtkunstwerk, in Wagner's term of pre-electronic communications.
		Christian worship is a Gesamtkunstwerk: a grand synthesis of living --that is, vibrantly live-- art-forms.
		Worship is supremely a "pre-electronic holdout against post-civilization," and that's one of its glories.
	www.worship.ca /docs/ww_47.html (842 words)

	Sci Fi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Huge machineries were utilized and subject matter drawn from mythos, melodrama and larger-than-life scenarios, all coupled with emotional and soaring underscores performed live by huge orchestras, but in a pit where they could not be seen (in order to avoid the obvious distance, and functioning like regular non-diegetic film music in many ways).
		This idea had first been introduced by Richard Wagner, who also established the well-known concept called "Gesamtkunstwerk" - in short meaning that theatre, or more specifically opera, was an overarching conglomerate of artforms - music, theatre, literature, visual arts - and thus, the ultimate artform altogether.
		Ideology in the late 19th century broke somewhat with the romantic idea, emphasizing the importance of reality and everyday life, referred to as realism and naturalism.
	www.celluloidtunes.com /scifi.htm (987 words)

	She's no Barbie \| MetaFilter
		Judge not lest ye be judged, and all that...
		gesamtkunstwerk, no worries, I was just pointing it out.
		Deathofme, part of the problem with The Swan is that the "winner" has be just the right amount of ugly and messed but still able to win each week.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/32462 (3069 words)

	Ghost of a flea: Gesamtkunstwerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Indeed, the Gesamtkunstwerk 'David Bowie' crystallises this splintered reality into cultural artifacts, and these in turn coagulate into new realities.
		Yes, yes, much the same could be said of the Gesamtkunstwerk of the Flea.
		Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 15, 2004 06:01 AM Trackback Pings
	www.ghostofaflea.com /archives/004103.html (155 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		There was austerity and rationing in postwar Finland; but in 1951, the designer Armi Ratia correctly guessed that Scandinavians, like everyone else, wanted to be less frumpy--and to consume products that reflected an upbeat, modernist outlook, changing gender roles and relaxing class structures.
		She set out to expand her husband's small printing business into a Gesamtkunstwerk (German for "total work of art"), making textiles and products that reflected the avant-garde attitude then being explored in Finnish plastics, ceramics, furniture and architecture.
		It's hard to believe that Marimekko's unmistakably vivid prints, inspired by advertising, modern art and the warp and woof of the global village, were once considered radical.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la?id=110004513 (835 words)

	mensa-test pt2 \| MetaFilter
		And I say this as someone who has read about the test.
		posted by gesamtkunstwerk at 5:48 PM PST on January 27
		gesamtkunstwerk writes "Um orthogonality, that's the fun of it.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/48644 (968 words)

	Stop The Spirit Of Zossen - Gesamtkunstwerk Of The American Idiots
		Tristan and Isolde is doubly important because it has long been revered as Richard Wagner's greatest single work, eclipsing in the eyes of many even his more famous Der Ring Des Nibelungen.
		Tristan it is said best represents Wagner's notion of Gesamtkunstwerk — “total art work” — the union of music, theater and environment to create an emotional response.
		The story comes to us from Arthurian legend and from there was derived from earlier obscure Celtic interpretations.
	www.stiftungleostrauss.com /bunker.php?itemid=87 (1038 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Gesamtkunstwerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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		Gesamtkunstwerk [Ger.: complete, unified or total work of art].
		Term first used by RICHARD WAGNER in Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (1849) to describe his concept of a work of art for the stage, based on the ideal of ancient Greek tragedy, to which all the individual arts would contribute under the direction of a single creative mind in order to express one overriding idea.
	www.artnet.com /library/03/0317/T031798.ASP (218 words)

	Arnold Schoenberg: Gustav Mahler, 1910 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk (Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, 1983.02.09-1983.04.01)
		Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk (Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna, 1983.09.09-1983.11.13)
		Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk (Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, Berlin, 1983.12.21-1984.02.19)
	usc.edu /isd/archives/schoenberg/painting/idportraithtms/ritter100.htm (266 words)

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