EBOOK Kingdom Not of This World: Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
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Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
A Kingdom Not of This World uncovers a forgotten utopian discourse--largely inspired by and critically responding to the works of Richard Wagner--that had significant influence upon the visual arts and music of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Author Kevin Karnes considers music by Mahler, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky; visual artworks by Klimt, Klinger, and members of the Vienna Secession; and philosophical writings by Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Maeterlinck, to reveal a powerful current of millennial optimism running counter and parallel to the cultural pessimism widely associated with the period.
A Kingdom Not of This World uncovers a forgotten utopian discourse--largely inspired by and critically responding to the works of Richard Wagner--that had significant influence upon the visual arts and music of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Author Kevin Karnes considers music by Mahler, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky; visual artworks by Klimt, Klinger, and members of the Vienna Secession; and philosophical writings by Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Maeterlinck, to reveal a powerful current of millennial optimism running counter and parallel to the cultural pessimism widely associated with the period.