{"product_id":"disorders-at-the-borders-in-search-of-the-gesamtkunstwerk-in-the-paintings-of-anselm-kiefer-9781800791794","title":"Disorders at the Borders: In Search of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Anselm Kiefer’s work is routinely compared with the \u003ci\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/i\u003e, the «total work of art» pioneered by Richard Wagner, \u003ci\u003eDisorders at the Borders \u003c\/i\u003erepresents the first time this relationship has been thoroughly investigated. But it is a relationship that involves much more than just aesthetics. Furthermore, it is a highly ambivalent one. The \u003ci\u003eGesamtkunstwerk \u003c\/i\u003ewas an embodiment of a certain view of nationhood, and nationhood is a concept that Kiefer has spent much of his career rendering thoroughly problematic. But Wagner’s innovative, inclusive art form was intended above all as a counter to the individualism that the composer was far from alone in identifying as the besetting sin of modernity, and that was widely thought at the time to be most evident in America. It can thus be contextualized within the long German tradition of counter-Americanism – as, to a large extent, can Kiefer. For whilst he owes his spectacular success in no small degree to the positive reception of his work in America, he has throughout his career displayed a resistance to the artistic influence of that country. Moreover, he and Wagner take a mutual stance regarding a series of questions: can art be separated from society, or the individual arts from each other? Is painting purely visual, and music purely sonic? Do things, in short, ever really exist or operate \u003ci\u003ein isolation\u003c\/i\u003e? That they answer in the negative to all of these is what, ultimately, connects Kiefer with Wagner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: What Was the \u003ci\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/i\u003e? – Anselm Kiefer, History Painter – \u003ci\u003eZum Raum wird hier die Zeit\u003c\/i\u003e: Synthesis, Purity and Synesthesia – \u003ci\u003eHomo Europaeus\u003c\/i\u003e: Wagner, Kiefer and Counter- Americanism – «The Whole Is the False»: The \u003ci\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/i\u003e, Kiefer and Theodor Adorno’s «Negative Dialectics» – Appendix: «Opera and Drama».\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042758263127,"sku":"9781800791794","price":60.08,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800791794.jpg?v=1750955501","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disorders-at-the-borders-in-search-of-the-gesamtkunstwerk-in-the-paintings-of-anselm-kiefer-9781800791794","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}