Gesamtkunstwerk
Gesamtkunstwerk (Ger.). Unified work of art. Wagner's term for a dramatic work in which drama, music, poetry, song, and paintings should be united into a new and complete art-form. This theory is expounded in his Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (The Art-work of the Future, 1849).
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