Alex Ross

Wagnerism (eBook, ePUB)

Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'An absolutely masterly work' 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 politics-an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007518517
• Artikelnr.: 60065272

Autorenporträt

Alex Ross graduated from Harvard in 1990. He wrote for the New York Times from 1992 until 1996 when he became staff writer at the New Yorker. His first book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, won the Guardian First Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of Listen to This. He lives in Los Angeles.

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