The Death and Life of the Total Work of Art: Henry Van de Velde and the Legacy of a Modern ConceptCarsten Ruhl, Chris Dähne, Rixt Hoekstra Introduction / Carsten Ruhl, Rixt Hoekstra, Chris Dähne -- From total design to total theory / Carsten Ruhl -- Educating the Gesamtkunstwerk : Henry van de Velde and art school reform in Germany, 1900-14 / Katherine Kuenzli -- A collision of worlds : art and commerce in the age of Henry van de Velde / John V. Maciuika -- Existenzminimum as Gesamtkunstwerk / Robin Schuldenfrei -- Pans, art, and architecture : Theo van Doesburg and the question of the "aesthetic unity of all the arts" / Matthias Noell -- Gesamtkunstwerk and gender : from domesticity to branding and back again / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- Expressing politics in urban planning : two projects by Herman Sörgel for Munich between the monarchy and republic / Rainer Schützeichel -- Symbolic dimension between nature and artifact : the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm / Carlotta Torricelli -- The creative destruction of the total work of art : from Hegel to Wagner and beyond / Wolfram Bergande -- Insular utopias? : Henry van de Velde, Peter Zumthor, and the Gesamtkunstwerk / Ole W. Fischer -- The notion of the total work of art and Italian building culture after World War II / Silvia Malcovati -- Can the immigrant spreak? : autonomy and participation in IBA 1984/87 / Esra Akcan -- The critical arabesque : on Jean-Luc Godard's Nouvelle vague (1990) / Regine Prange -- Acute aesthetics / Anke Finger -- Architectures to be inhaled : constructing the ephemeral / Ákos Moravánszky -- The Gesamtkunstwerk in the age of terror / Esther da Costa Meyer |
