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  • This two-channel projection is based on the 1923 ballet, scored by the composer Igor Stravinsky for Sergei Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes, one of the 20th century's most significant modernist experiments of gesamtkunstwerk.

    Susan Segal: Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding) Susan Segal 2011

  • Has the zeigeist of the weltanschauung concerning my gesamtkunstwerk changed?

    time to make crullers 2009

  • Has the zeigeist of the weltanschauung concerning my gesamtkunstwerk changed?

    zut alors 2009

  • But I can still have my opinion, and in my gesamtkunstwerk, having a major policy debate for the American presidency at a evangelical Baptist megachurch is Complete Fucking Bullshit.

    falcon hears the falconer 2008

  • But I can still have my opinion, and in my gesamtkunstwerk, having a major policy debate for the American presidency at a evangelical Baptist megachurch is Complete Fucking Bullshit.

    pardon my trespasses 2008

  • Programme music/gesamtkunstwerk versus pure music.

    Archive 2004-08-01 Jessica 2004

  • Programme music/gesamtkunstwerk versus pure music.

    Further reading... Jessica 2004

  • YOU have been crafting gesamtkunstwerk - in fact I evidenced that by having to put on a sweater while sitting here, the environment dictating my dress.

    World of SL 2010

  • Context (3/7) •   Richard Wagner idealized a type of artwork that would combine different arts - a "total art work" (gesamtkunstwerk).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows CorreiaNuno 2010

  • He also pursued new paths with his famous Light-Space Modulator of 1930, describing his gesamtkunstwerk composed of color, light, and movement as an "apparatus for the demonstration of the effects of light and movement."

    Art Knowledge News Kurt Hausmann 2010

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  • Prolagus commented on the word gesamtkunstwerk

    Gesundheit!

    September 2, 2008

  • MaryW commented on the word gesamtkunstwerk

    To watch Hamilton is to experience a total work of art—a Gesamtkunstwerk, in which different forms are combined into a single unified whole. The production brings together a staggeringly wide array of musical styles, including hip-hop, ragtime, Broadway musical theatre, Jazz, and baroque harpsichord. The tableau unfolds dynamically . . .an ensemble of dancers surrounds the main characters with intricate, sharp choreography . . . . The costumes manage to be elegant and period appropriate while also avoiding caricature. . . .

    But the most astonishing artistic weapon that Hamilton unleashes is the power—in both force and quantity—of its words.The two-and-a-half-hour show comprises 20,000 words, nearly all of them delivered in some form of song or rap. The show is "sung-through," a phrase whose new frequency among the general public is yet another consequence of Hamilton-mania.

    Alison L. LaCroix, The Rooms Where It Happened, The New Rambler, May 23, 2016 (reviewing Hamilton: An American Musical, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Hamilton: The Revolution, by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter)

    May 23, 2016