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What's a "Gesamtkunstwerk"? Why This Concept Is a Key Part of Design History Laura Itzkowitz Fri, June 25, 2021 at 6:56 PM UTC 4 min read Photo credit: Alice Morgan ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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