{"product_id":"wagnerism-art-and-politics-in-the-shadow-of-music","title":"Wagnerism : Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlex Ross, renowned \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rest Is Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ring of the Nibelung\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTristan und Isolde\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParsifal\u003c\/i\u003e were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cezanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Bunuel, 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWagnerism\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ehave come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eO Pioneers! \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eApocalypse Now\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn many ways, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWagnerism\u003c\/i\u003e tells a tragic tale.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWagnerism\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Published: USA, 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Publisher: Picador\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages: 784\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguage: English \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 13: 9781250800084\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 10: 1250800080\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alex Ross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43765762097418,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9781250800084.jpg?v=1664887778","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/wagnerism-art-and-politics-in-the-shadow-of-music","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}