The Total Work of Art in European Modernism

by David Roberts

In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in the service of social and cultural regeneration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801450233
• ISBN13: 9780801450235
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher