gesamtkunstwerk
this word, coined by richard wagner in his theoretical essays of 1849-51, means literally “whole arts work”. it is the idea of combining many variations of media for the purpose of drama.
“that opera was such a good example of gesamtkunstwerk”
“well that idea is similar to wagner’s gesamtkunstwerk”
‘complete-art-work’. london review of books, vol 24, no. 6, 21st march 2002, page 16 col 3 by hal foster, ‘andy paperbag’. “and these devices became central to his persona, which is sometimes seen as his ultimate work: warhol as the spectral centre of a flashy scene, a kind of blank gesamtkunstwerk–in-person”.
‘mediaeval cathedrals were the gesamtkunstwerks of their era’, recently heard on bbc radio 4,
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