Ross, Alex 1968-

Wagnerism art and politics in the shadow of music Alex Ross - First edition - x, 769 S., 4 ungez. Bl. Ill. 23,5 cm

Literatur- u. Quellenverz. S. [663] - 728

Prelude : Death in Venice -- Rheingold : Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Ring -- Tristan Chord : Baudelaire and the Symbolists -- Swan Knight : Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America -- Grail Temple : Esoteric, Decadent, and Satanic Wagner -- Holy German Art : The Kaiserreich and Fin-de-Siècle Vienna -- Nibelheim : Jewish and Black Wagner -- Venusberg : Feminist and Gay Wagner -- Brünnhilde's Rock : Willa Cather and the Singer-Novel -- Magic Fire : Modernism, 1900 to 1914 -- Nothung : The First World War and Hitler's Youth -- Ring of Power : Revolution and Russia -- Flying Dutchman : Ulysses, The Waste Land, The Waves -- Siegfried's Death : Nazi Germany and Thomas Mann -- Ride of the Valkyries : Film from The Birth of a Nation to Apocalypse Now -- The Wound : Wagnerism After 1945. "A large-canvas narrative history, charting the impact of the cultural titan Wagner on art and politics. Ross will show how various artists-composers, novelists, poets, filmmakers-wrestled with the legacy of Wagner in the twentieth century"--

9780374285937 hardcover

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Wagner, Richard 1813-1883 --Influence


Opera--Political aspects--History--19th century
Opera--Political aspects--History--20th century
Music and literature--History--19th century
Music and literature--History--20th century
Art and music--History--19th century
Motion pictures and music--History--20th century

Fellow Holtzbrinck Fellow Class of Fall 2002

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