1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453078803321

Autore

Mirabile Andrea

Titolo

Multimedia archaeologies : Gabriele D'Annunzio, Belle époque Paris, and the total artwork / / Andrea Mirabile

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Rodopi, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

94-012-1051-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; ; 172

Disciplina

858.809

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Paris (France) History 20th century

Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century

Paris (France) In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgments -- The Decadence of Decadence -- The Verbal: Saint Sebastian, Adonis, and Christ -- The Visual: Aesthetic/Ecstatic -- The Musical: Music for the Eyes -- Multimedia Archaeologies: Gabriele D’Annunzio, Belle Époque Paris, and the Total Artwork -- Works Cited.

Sommario/riassunto

Paris, 1910-1915. Artists, intellectuals, and international celebrities crowd the city as never before. Decadent dreams and avant-garde manifestos celebrate the marriage between art and life. Creative experiments and vital joy dance hand in hand—on the edge of the abyss of WWI. Gabriele D’Annunzio is one of the highly influential yet semi-forgotten protagonists of this season and an emblem of its contradictions. A child of the Decadence, but also a forerunner of Modernism, the Italian poet defies the barriers between art forms, languages, and aesthetic practices. Tellingly, some of the period’s major figures across the arts are involved in D’Annunzio’s projects, including Canudo, Bakst, Brooks, Debussy, Montesquiou, and Rubinstein. In particular, in his sacred drama Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien , the poet combines French, Italian, literature, theater, mime,



dance, music, painting, and cinema in a way that fuses old and new. D’Annunzio’s hybrid experiments challenge Wagner’s ‘total artwork’ theories, search for a synthesis between pictorial stillness and filmic movement, and anticipate contemporary multimedia experiences. These artistic collaborations end suddenly at the outbreak of the Great War, when Dannunzian total artworks migrate from the stage to the battlefield, generating a controversial legacy that calls for renewed critical investigations.

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Record Nr.

UNIORUON00335869

Autore

FIEDLER, Leslie A.

Titolo

Freaks : miti e immagini dell'io segreto / Leslie Fiedler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

382 p., : ill. ; 21 cm

Edizione

[Milano : Garzanti]

Descrizione fisica

Tit. orig.: Freaks: Myths and images of the secret self

Disciplina

819

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia