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“This two-channel projection is based on the 1923 ballet, scored by the composer Igor Stravinsky for Sergei Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes, one of the 20th century's most significant modernist experiments of gesamtkunstwerk.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Segal: Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding)
“Has the zeigeist of the weltanschauung concerning my gesamtkunstwerk changed?”
“But I can still have my opinion, and in my gesamtkunstwerk, having a major policy debate for the American presidency at a evangelical Baptist megachurch is Complete Fucking Bullshit.”
“Programme music/gesamtkunstwerk versus pure music.”
“YOU have been crafting gesamtkunstwerk - in fact I evidenced that by having to put on a sweater while sitting here, the environment dictating my dress.”
“Context (3/7) • Richard Wagner idealized a type of artwork that would combine different arts - a "total art work" (gesamtkunstwerk).”
“He also pursued new paths with his famous Light-Space Modulator of 1930, describing his gesamtkunstwerk composed of color, light, and movement as an "apparatus for the demonstration of the effects of light and movement.”
“Wagner's Lohengrin and the operatic ideal of the gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork) provided Van Doesburg's art with big ambitions.”
“Hungarian composer György Kurtág remembers his lifelong friend, György Ligeti, a gesamtkunstwerk.”
“The composer Richard Wagner famously went on about the gesamtkunstwerk-the complete work of art drawing on all media.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gesamtkunstwerk’.
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permanent foreign residents in English
Foreign words and phrases that are perfectly acceptable to use in formal English writing, but still maintain the aura of foreignness. They do not enjoy full citizenship, but remain "alien residents...
prima facie, a priori, a posteriori, avant la lettre, corpus delicti, l'esprit de l'esc..., sans-culotte, memento mori, gesamtkunstwerk, amour propre, guru, deja vu and 25 more...
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Niels's Words
bien-pensant, pro re nata, zeitgeist, naïve, quod erat demonst..., dramastic, mélange, amanuensis, heuristic, hermeneutic, gist, gumption and 157 more...
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Favorites
machiavellian, mercurial, deus ex machina, synecdoche, litotes, phallic, freudian, metonymy, chrestomathy, falsifiable, gestalt, truthiness and 211 more...
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Musical words
nocturne, flat, sharp, waltz, etude, opera, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, cello, flute and 131 more...
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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Contact!
Words for the guessing game of Contact, which is remarkably effective at killing time when you're with 2 or more people. The game is similar to Botticelli.
totemic, fungible, solipsism, copacetic, adamantine, pessary, vivisect, postlapsarian, doggerel, waif, stentorian, zoetrope and 67 more...
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tiffani's Words
commentariat, hibakusha, nonpareil, nonplussed, jerrybuilt, lodestar, soi-disant, rout, shtick, pols, supplicant, diffident and 49 more...
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moominword's list
an ontography
saltatory, chawbacon, omnifarious, confused, salvific, capitulate, attrition, gaffe, bailiwick, salubrious, spontaneous, enfeoff and 45 more...
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Philosophy words
theodicy, deontologist, teleologist, aretaic, ergon, haecceity, quiddity, solipsism, apologetics, syllogism, induction, epistemology and 17 more...
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vocab
personal reference
concupiscence, conflagration, manichaeism, epochal, anhedonia, limpid, epithet, elegy, multivalent, chora, semiotic, subversive and 85 more...
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Poly-Tick...Tick...Tick... BOOM
words.
awarey, bewarey, hypocratic, disturbilatory, metamutography, rendle, scoptophilia, gesamtkunstwerk, blatant rhetoric ..., fail reserve, drilling for fail, obloquous ignoram... and 24 more...
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wörter und wortschöpfungen
schnittstelle, vulkankaninchen, selbstanspruch, wunschzustand, berghain, zartbitter, frühlingsgefühle, dialogfetzen, selbstreferentiell, aphorismus, lakonisch, gedankensplitter and 62 more...
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Gesundheit!
If you say it juuust so, it sounds like a sneeze.
focaccia, spatula, facetious, hooey, kudzu, syzygy, bivouac, brouhaha, flummox, banshee, bugaboo, chin-up and 68 more...
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Musicality
Words used in music, describing music, or that are particularly musical.
troubador, aria, soprano, cadenza, cantabile, capriccio, glissando, nocturne, rigaudon, rococo, verismo, sforzando and 5 more...
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hipcathobbes's Words
hyperboreal, gesamtkunstwerk, sacerdotal, slough of despond, piquant, lachrymose, docent, demagoguery, palpably, floccinaucinihili..., calumny, bricolage and 4 more...
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jemimy's list
Oh no you didn't!
Tweets
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Prolagus Gesundheit! Sep 2, 2008