Intermediala studier: Allkonstverkets estetik
The course covers both the historically specific concept of The Total Work of Art (Gesamtkunstwerk), with Richard Wagner's opera aesthetics in focus, as well as other forms of compound medial artistic expressions of our times such as film, music videos, and architecture. Special attention is paid to concepts such as form/content, art, intermediality, border crossings, art, aesthetics and ideology.The course covers both the historically specific concept of The Total Work of Art (Gesamtkunstwerk), with Richard Wagner's opera aesthetics in focus, as well as other forms of compound medial artistic expressions of our times such as film, music videos, and architecture. Special attention is paid to concepts such as form/content, art, intermediality, border crossings, art, aesthetics and ideology.