Blythe, John (2019). Schoenberg and the Gesamtkunstwerk path to abstraction. University of Birmingham. M.A.
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Abstract
In the years before 1914, the Austrian composer and artist Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) produced abstract images for a planned Gesamtkunstwerk (synthesis of the arts) based on Balzac’s (1799-1850) novella, Seraphita, a fictionalized version of the religious ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). The images were intended to be transformed into a fully abstract synthesis of music and moving pictures: a film with synchronous sound. This concept presented technical challenges which might be insoluble even with modern technology; it was never fully realized. This thesis contributes to the current art-historical discourse on the genesis of abstraction and offers an alternative to the more usual narrative of “coloured paint on a flat canvas”.
| Type of Work: | Thesis (Masters by Research > M.A.) | |||||||||
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| Award Type: | Masters by Research > M.A. | |||||||||
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| Licence: | All rights reserved | |||||||||
| College/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law | |||||||||
| School or Department: | School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies | |||||||||
| Funders: | None/not applicable | |||||||||
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general | |||||||||
| URI: | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/9969 |
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