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Disorders at the Borders; In Search of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer

by Wates Matt Wates

  • Hardback
  • 310 pages
  • Publisher: Peter Lang UK
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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For art historians and students of German culture.

Unpacks the complex influence of Wagner on Kiefer.

Helps you understand how art reflects national identity.

A deep exploration into the complex artistic and cultural connection between Anselm Kiefer and Richard Wagner.

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Although Anselm Kiefer's work is routinely compared with the Gesamtkunstwerk, the total work of art pioneered by Richard Wagner, Disorders at the Borders represents 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 Gesamtkunstwerk was 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 in isolation? That they answer in the negative to all of these is what, ultimately, connects Kiefer with Wagner.
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  • Title

    Disorders at the Borders; In Search of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer

  • Author

    Wates Matt Wates

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Peter Lang UK

  • Published

    August 2021

  • Weight

    600g

  • Page Count

    310

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781800791794

  • ISBN-10

    1800791798

  • Eden Code

    5608784