¿An absolutely masterly work¿ Stephen FryAlex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics¿an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of writers, artists, and thinkers, including Charles Baudelaire, Virginia Woolf, Isadora Duncan, Vasily Kandinsky, and Luis Bu¿uel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Nazi Germany, and the composer came
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From renowned comics artist Alex Ross, the companion volume to The Alex Ross Marvel Comics Poster Book¿a deluxe poster collection of Marvel Comics¿s greatest villainsFrom Abomination to Venom, all your favorite Marvel Comics super villains are featured...
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DC Comics proudly presents a massive slipcase hardcover featuring the Eisner Award-winning team of artist Alex Ross and writer Paul Dini!
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Includes a new chapter on John Cage.Alex Ross¿s award-winning international best-seller, ¿The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century¿, has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural...
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