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In other words, the total work of art could be contained within music.

The attempt to construct a total work of art 31.

Mr. Helm wants to create a total work of art.

He felt a house should be a total work of art, not just the architecture, but all the furniture and fittings as well.

It calls for a new 'total work of art', to be created with active participation of the people.

The film was described by Louis Delluc as "cinema's first total work of art."

There are five senses, and a truly "total work of art" would have to include touch and taste along with sound, sight and smell.

Johnson viewed the ensemble of one-room buildings as a total work of art, claiming that it was his best and only "landscape project."

In the estimation of many it is a total work of art and serves as "the largest outdoor sculpture in the collection."

On its pages members of the association competed with each other, for the journal worked as a Gesamtkunstwerk [total work of art].

The so-called "total work of art" was not just a fusion of the arts, but an expression of the harmonious interaction of an ideal society.

He liked Wagner's music, but he also embraced the composer's notion of the "Gesamtkunstwerk," or total work of art.

For those of us who think that the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, should apply even to candy stores, See's is heaven.

According to the criteria of the late Baroque period, they succeeded in bringing together painting, sculpture, light, space, and architecture into a unified total work of art.

This combination of music and artwork is intended to function as a total work of art, which is a further use of concepts borrowed from high culture.

"He envisioned a total work of art, which would embrace all the arts in a single unit, but rather than a Wagnerian fusion, it was Dadaist," she said.

One striking thing about Mr. Kieslowski's films is their similarity to the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, the total work of art that employs all the arts.

Dutch, German and Hungarian designers were also influenced by the idea of organic unity and the concept of the total work of art in an interior.

"It's the 20th-century version of the gesamtkunstwerk," Mr. Hoch said, referring to Wagner's ideal of a total work of art.

Although Mr. Huang envisioned the exhibition as a single installation, a total work of art, it is hard to make quick, clear sense of the whole or its parts.

This spacious, multi-level residence and its furnishings and landscaping were created by Gropius and Breuer as a 'Total Work of Art.'

In 1930, Jacobsen designed the Functionalist, white-plastered Rothenborg House on Klampenborgvej in Klampenborg, planned and furnished as a total work of art.

Diaghilev's genius was in finding unknown artists in the fields of art, music, design and choreography and combining their talents in a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art.

Wagner believed that his "total work of art" brought together the individual arts, which had been once united in Greek tragedy and then forced for thousands of years to suffer a half-life on their own.

Not when they are in here, but when they are out there, they form part of a total artwork called the Council – and what a total work of art that is!

A Gesamtkunstwerk (translated as total work of art, ideal work of art, universal artwork, synthesis of the arts, comprehensive artwork, all-embracing art form or total artwork) is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so.

That's the question the various artists here asked themselves - a question that goes back to Richard Wagner, the Symbolists' patron saint for his dream of a Gesamtkunstwerk, a universal artwork uniting music and art.

A Gesamtkunstwerk (translated as total work of art, ideal work of art, universal artwork, synthesis of the arts, comprehensive artwork, all-embracing art form or total artwork) is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so.

After all, they are at bottom the same thing - a synthesis of the arts - and their relationship has been historically close.

These bears are placed next to each other in a large circle - generally in alphabetical order - as a unique synthesis of the arts.

Always more interested than Balanchine in a synthesis of the arts, Kirstein promoted what he called "lyric theater."

This style extended into the smallest details of the interior design and partially accepted the courses of a synthesis of the arts.

Those who still consciously or subconsciously see ballet as a theatrical synthesis of the arts hark back to the Diaghilev model that Balanchine rejected.

Others who wrote on syntheses of the arts included Gottfried Lessing, Ludwig Tieck and Novalis.

Indeed, a union of the arts was exactly what Richard Wagner imagined in his ideal of the "Gesamtkunstwerk" or a "synthesis of the arts" (literally: "complete artwork").

With these treasure chambers, Augustus the Strong realised his vision of a Baroque Gesamtkunstwerk (synthesis of the arts) as an expression of wealth and absolutist power.

Alexander Vesnin rejected the concept of synthesis of the arts: for them, architectural form itself synthesized past experience in graphic art and spatial installations, and need no embellishments besides the inevitable advertising.

Interviewed in Paris five years ago, Mr. Kochno reaffirmed his view that ballet was a synthesis of the arts and that the choreographer came last - after the librettist, composer and designer.

TRIP - Remix Your Experience is a German Gesamtkunstwerk, a synthesis of the arts, authored and produced by Frank Otto and Bernt Köhler-Adams in 2005.

The close interrelationship of the virelai's text, the harp illustration and the rondeau give evidence that the notation in Ch has been intended by Jacob Senleches as a synthesis of the arts.

UNESCO catalogued Schönbrunn Palace on the World Heritage List in 1996, together with its gardens, as a remarkable Baroque ensemble and example of synthesis of the arts.

The main thing Stravinsky held against Wagner was the Synthesis of the Arts, his term for what Wagnerians (even when speaking other languages than German) call the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art.

Although choreographers like Ashton, Tudor and Balanchine (and today, Jerome Robbins) hardly lived in seclusion, they realized that Diaghilev's formula of a synthesis of the arts had outlived its time.

The idea and the philosophy behind the United Buddy Bears exhibitions are unique: with its international approach and its symbolism, this synthesis of the arts globally promotes tolerance, international understanding and a peaceful coexistence.

The synthesis of the arts shows the feature-length film version behind the main stage, accompanied by drums, keyboard and lead vocals, as well as the 4 films placed singly in separate positions, each of which allows for stage performances.

Both Sanderson and Wells believed that education should be a synthesis of the arts, humanities, and sciences; geared towards the individual aptitudes and interests of each pupil; and applied and technical in addition to theoretical and experimental.

Bakst's rather decadent sophistication would soon be swept away with barbaric energy by the Cubo-Futurists, whose posters and illustrated books were nonetheless more like a reform of the Style Moderne synthesis of the arts than a true overthrow of it.

Shenshin was a member of the first Presidium of the Moscow Institute of Artistic Culture and a close friend of its president, Wassily Kandinsky, a noted painter who shared an interest in using scientific methods to further a synthesis of the arts.

A Gesamtkunstwerk (translated as total work of art, ideal work of art, universal artwork, synthesis of the arts, comprehensive artwork, all-embracing art form or total artwork) is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so.

The search for the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total art form, was frequently the ideal.

The individual chooses and makes its own body as a sort of "gesamtkunstwerk Ego".

A heavy emphasis is placed on the Gesamtkunstwerk aspect of the works, rather than individual images.

The closest definition of his art is perhaps the idea of the "Gesamtkunstwerk".

His preferred form was the total artwork that the Germans call Gesamtkunstwerk.

Indeed it was a magnificent Gesamtkunstwerk of architecture, sculpture, applied arts and gardening.

The word Gesamtkunstwerk applied to any of this stuff carries vaguely horrific connotations.

It's fair to say, perhaps, that Weiwei's life has become a work of art in its own right, a kind of gesamtkunstwerk.

Helbigs work builds on the tradition of the Gesamtkunstwerk (all-embracing art form).

It's a total environment, an Islamic gesamtkunstwerk.

Richard Wagner used gesamtkunstwerk in creating his operas.

There is a kind of Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk quality.

Altogether, then, the museum she created is the kind of gesamtkunstwerk - total art work - that conforms to the late Victorian esthetic ideal.

At the time, he tried to paint what he calls an "ambitious Hollywood painting, a Gesamtkunstwerk of the movies."

You call this a Gesamtkunstwerk?

It was a complete work of art, her Gesamtkunstwerk, like Wagner's "Ring" cycle.

Rather, it re-enacts the ideal of the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk.

Wagner used the term gesamtkunstwerk to elucidate the "combined artwork" integrating music, acting, dance and poetry.

For Syberberg, cinema is a form of Gesamtkunstwerk.

It was intended as a Gesamtkunstwerk (the synthesis of diverse artistic media and sensory effects), infused with spiritual significance.

So elated was Disney by this Wagnerian "gesamtkunstwerk"that he resolved to make a new version of it every year.

Opera is Gesamtkunstwerk, in which words and music are necessary and subservient means to dramatic and coherent ends.

The auction as Gesamtkunstwerk.

This central position of the visitor could motivate him to become active also in other parts of society, which matches the ideas of the Gesamtkunstwerk.

The original, grand Gesamtkunstwerk vision became diluted and submerged by the Kunstgewerbliches-the artsy-craftsy.