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And the word is an admittedly awkward, but handy, 15-letter handle, gesamtkunstwerk. If you’re one of the approximately 1 billion people who paid any attention whatsoever to the Olympic opening ...

For Wagner, opera offered the potential for the creation of a gesamtkunstwerk, a German term loosely translated as a “total work of art” or an “all-embracing art form.” The opera ...

It was Richard Wagner who first used the word Gesamtkunstwerk in his 1849 essay, The Artwork of the Future, as a way of trying to capture the defining characteristic of a new kind of artwork he wa ...

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At the Saatchi Gallery this winter's exhibition is of new art from Germany. It bears the title Gesamtkunstwerk, a term that immediately conjures the later operas of Wagner, for he adopted it ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The diversity of German art now is the exhibition's key talking point. To this end, the body of ...

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