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Detailed description :L’Œuvre d’art totale

L’Œuvre d’art totale

Under the direction of Jean Galard, Julian Zugazagoitia

Contributions by Marcella Lista, Jean Galard, Julian Zugazagoitia, Antoine Compagnon, Serge Gruzinski, Eric Michaud, Glenn W. Most

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The arts have broken the ties that bind them and, in their isolation, have become corrupted: such is the diagnosis Richard Wagner put forth in 1849, in his plan to produce “the artwork of the future” and thus re-establish the original union. The theme of the synthesis of the arts, or their symbiosis, remained at the heart of 20th-century artistic concerns, particularly with regard to avant-garde projects. Producing a “total artwork” is not just a matter of combining several techniques, disciplines or media. It also involves drawing in the viewer, calling upon all the senses, and conducting the fusion of life and art.

Series

Art et artistes

Technical details

216 pages, paperback, 16 x 22 cm, 48 black-and-white illustrations.

Publication date

2003

Related event

Proceedings of the lectures held at the Musée du Louvre from January 21 to March 11, 2002 and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from April 16 to May 28, 2002.

ISBN French
2-07-070331-2
French only


Co-publisher(s)

Gallimard