{"product_id":"wagnerism-art-and-politics-in-the-shadow-of-music-paperback","title":"Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlex Ross\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Ross, renowned \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist \u003ci\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003eThe Ring of the Nibelung\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTristan und Isolde\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eParsifal\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\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\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. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers! \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Now\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn many ways, \u003ci\u003eWagnerism\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eWagnerism\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Ross has been the music critic for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e since 1996. His first book, the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Book Critics Circle Award. His second book, the essay collection \u003ci\u003eListen to This\u003c\/i\u003e, received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2008 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 784\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.36 x 8.24 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768048288032,"sku":"9781250800084","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/759cb4fc6d5723b558ec7268cab2d387.webp?v=1780323482","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/wagnerism-art-and-politics-in-the-shadow-of-music-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}