Wagnerism
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What’s it about?
A sweeping cultural history of how Richard Wagner's music became a mirror for the world's deepest anxieties, highest aspirations, and most dangerous obsessions.
You’ll learn
- Why Wagner's art became a cultural Rorschach test
- How Wagner influenced modern art, film, and literature
- The troubling link between Wagner and Nazi ideology
- How artists reclaimed Wagner after the Holocaust