{"product_id":"wagnerism-9781250800084","title":"Wagnerism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Ross, renowned \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Rest Is Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politicsan aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as \u003ci\u003eThe Ring of the Nibelung\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTristan und Isolde\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eParsifal\u003c\/i\u003e were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Buñuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Naz\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407309676887,"sku":"9781250800084","price":21.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250800084.jpg?v=1730498942","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wagnerism-9781250800084","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}