Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

Title: Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music Author: Alex Ross ISBN: 9781250800084 Publisher: Picador Published: 2021 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Music & Performing Arts 1551658 Publisher 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 freed