Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

by Alex Ross and Alex Ross

Book Overview

Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, 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.

For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374285934
• ISBN13: 9780374285937
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"