LEADER 04288nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910524669303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6097-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460975 035 $a(CKB)2550000000063261 035 $a(OCoLC)763161321 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10508793 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000566132 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11339695 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000566132 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10534484 035 $a(PQKB)10405952 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499149 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28908 035 $a(DE-B1597)478290 035 $a(OCoLC)979968138 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460975 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138267 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10508793 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681818 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138267 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000063261 100 $a20110519d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe total work of art in European modernism /$fDavid Roberts 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca, N.Y. $cCornell University Press $cCornell University Library$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (301 pages) 225 1 $aSignale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-50536-5 311 0 $a0-8014-5023-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. The Artwork of the Future --$tPart II. The Spiritual in Art --$tPart III. The Sublime in Politics --$tConclusion --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn this groundbreaking book, David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in the service of social and cultural regeneration was a particularly German dream, which made Wagner and Nietzsche the other center of aesthetic modernism alongside Baudelaire and Mallarmé. The history and theory of the total work of art pose a whole series of questions not only to aesthetic modernism and its utopias but also to the whole epoch from the French Revolution to the totalitarian revolutions of the twentieth century. The total work of art indicates the need to revisit key assumptions of modernism, such as the foregrounding of the autonomy and separation of the arts at the expense of the countertendencies to the reunion of the arts, and cuts across the neat equation of avant-gardism with progress and deconstructs the familiar left-right divide between revolution and reaction, the modern and the antimodern. Situated at the interface between art, religion, and politics, the total work of art invites us to rethink the relationship between art and religion and art and politics in European modernism. In a major departure from the existing literature David Roberts argues for twin lineages of the total work, a French revolutionary and a German aesthetic, which interrelate across the whole epoch of European modernism, culminating in the aesthetic and political radicalism of the avant-garde movements in response to the crisis of autonomous art and the accelerating political crisis of European societies from the 1890's forward. 410 0$aSignale (Ithaca, N.Y.) 606 $aModernism (Aesthetics) 606 $aArts, Modern$xPhilosophy 606 $aArts, European$y19th century$xPhilosophy 606 $aArts, European$y20th century$xPhilosophy 615 0$aModernism (Aesthetics) 615 0$aArts, Modern$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aArts, European$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aArts, European$xPhilosophy. 676 $a111/.85 700 $aRoberts$b David$f1937-$0285110 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524669303321 996 $aThe Total Work of Art in European Modernism$92686757 997 $aUNINA