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The entire murals offers a wide survey that includes many canonical artists right into a unmarried narrative. With specific realization to the impression of the whole murals on glossy theatre and function, this short advent may also be of curiosity to scholars in such fields as movie stories, track heritage, historical past of paintings, cultural stories, and smooth eu literatures.
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Like Julius Lessing (see epigraph), Lothar Bucher described the combination of trees and glass in the Palace as having the effect of an “enchanted forest” which makes the space “magical,” like “a piece of a summer night’s dream in the midnight sun” (quoted in Lessing 7, 10). Charlotte Brontë referred to it as a “marvelous, stirring, bewildering sight – a mixture of a Genii Palace and a mighty Bazaar” (3:241) and Lewis Carroll wrote that “[i]t looks a sort of fairyland” (1:34). Even the worldly-wise W.
1:63/3:39*) The total work of art 19 Throughout this passage, as indeed throughout all of Wagner’s Zurich writings, aesthetic perfection and social emancipation are inseparable. Thus the raising of trade into art, referred to in one clause, is followed quite naturally in the next clause by the raising of the “slave of industry” into a master of all he surveys. Here Wagner embraces the most revolutionary aspects of Schiller’s dream of an Aesthetic State, “in which man,” as Schiller described it in the Aesthetic Education, “is relieved of the shackles of circumstance” (27/215).
14 But the dream, which Schiller and Wagner shared, held sway throughout the period when Wagner was formulating his notion of the total work of art, and it would recur throughout that tradition. Significantly, Schiller and Wagner were both split, at some times advocating the radical transformation of society, at other times turning away from any hint of political revolution in order to cultivate chosen circles of acolytes and esthetes. We find, in this split, a dialectic that will be central to the history of the total work of art as a whole.