Author: Jacques BarzunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
First edition published May 1941.
Darwin, Marx, Wagner
Author: Jacques BarzunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
First edition published May 1941.
Darwin Marx Wagner Critique of a Heritage - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Jacques BarzunPublisher:
ISBN: 9781298024190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
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Darwin, Marx, Wagner
Author: Jacques BarzunDarwin, Marx, and Wagner
Author: Henry L. PlainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Darwin, Marx, and Wagner
Author: Henry L. PlainePublisher:
ISBN: 9780758173676
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Darwin, Marx, Wagner
Author: Jacques BarzunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reassesses the stature and contributions of the three, points out their similarities, and attempts to explain why they have come to be so revered.
Darwin, Mark, Wagner
Author: Jacques Barzun The Culture We Deserve
Author: Jacques BarzunPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819562371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The essence of culture is interpenetration. From any part of it the searching eye will discover connections with another part seemingly remote. If from my descriptions the reader finds this wide-angled view sharpened or expanded, my purpose in publishing these pages will have been served.
Classic, Romantic, and Modern
Author: Jacques BarzunPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226038520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Drawing from the works of influential figures in art and literature, the author traces the development of romanticism from classicism and the emergence of the modern ego.
Wagnerism
Author: Alex RossPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429944544
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For 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 The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal 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 Nazi Germany, and the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism. For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil. In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, charlatans, and prophets do battle over Wagner’s many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from O Pioneers! to Apocalypse Now. In many ways, Wagnerism tells a tragic tale. An artist who might have rivaled Shakespeare in universal reach is undone by an ideology of hate. Still, his shadow lingers over twenty-first century culture, his mythic motifs coursing through superhero films and fantasy fiction. Neither apologia nor condemnation, Wagnerism is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.