The Total Work of Art

The Total Work of ArtFor two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerkthe ideal of the total work of arthas exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner, Gesamtkunstwerks lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism, as this wide ranging collection demonstrates. In eleven compact

offers an alternative paradigm of culture that better fits the data and allows us to understand and defend the humanities as a source of value

Based off a real-life close friend of Swift’s

Alessandro Ricci

for a wider audience than the youth culture who flocked to more transgressive fare

Even as we live this moment

he experiences a higher level of conversation—discussions about politics

with a preface by Professor Roger Ling and a thorough index

All physical structures and tissues of the sorghum plant may become diseased with one pathogen or another

labor unions

the competing social subjectivities and gender discourses

the text takes readers beyond constructions of lesbian faculty that rely on identity

African American resistance