Alex Ross

Wagnerism

Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

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Produktbeschreibung

â An absolutely masterly workâ Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politicsâ an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 152087
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 152mm x 49mm
• Gewicht: 978g
• ISBN-13: 9780008422943
• ISBN-10: 000842294X
• Artikelnr.: 60480089

Autorenporträt

Alex Ross

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude: Death in Venice
1. Rheingold: Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Ring
2. Tristan Chord: Baudelaire and the Symbolists
3. Swan Knight: Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America
4. Grail Temple: Esoteric, Decadent, and Satanic Wagner
5. Holy German Art: The Kaiserreich and Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
6. Nibelheim: Jewish and Black Wagner
7. Venusberg: Feminist and Gay Wagner
8. Brünnhilde's Rock: Willa Cather and the Singer-Novel
9. Magic Fire: Modernism, 1900 to 1914
10. Nothung: The First World War and Hitler's Youth
11. Ring of Power: Revolution and Russia
12. Flying Dutchman: Ulysses, The Waste Land, The Waves
13. Siegfried's Death: Nazi Germany and Thomas Mann
14. Ride of the Valkyries: Film from The Birth of a Nation to Apocalypse
Now
15. The Wound: Wagnerism After 1945