gesamtkunstwerk
Noun
Meaning
Gesamtkunstwerk (plural Gesamtkunstwerks)
Total artwork; an artistic creation such as an operatic performance that encompasses music, theatre and the visual arts.
gesamtkunstwerk (plural gesamtkunstwerks)
Alternative letter-case form of Gesamtkunstwerk
Examples
Weber was in some ways Wagner 's precursor, using the leitmotif and conceiving the idea of the "total art work" ("Gesamtkunstwerk"), both of which gained Baudelaire's admiration.
In " The Artwork of the Future " (1849), he described a vision of opera as Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), in which the various arts such as music, song, dance, poetry, visual arts and stagecraft were unified.
Nonetheless, it was founded with the idea of creating a "total" work of art ( Gesamtkunstwerk ) in which all arts, including architecture, would eventually be brought together.