119. Rosenberg 3.2 Not Violin Music = "Yeah, and of course soundtracks are usually made in a database way… "
Where I do sneak in a couple of major avant-garde Canadian films, one where the visuals are engraved on the film stock and the other which is nothing but titles, one at a time. Masterpieces, I say!
Written on June 19, 2015 and then posted on Facebook June 30, 2015
Yup, I had to look it up, too. An organization named “The Art Story” has laid it all out for you (in what seems like good crib notes for students awaiting a final exam): https://www.theartstory.org/definition/gesamtkunstwerk/
My immediate response to reading the above text resulted in this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Arnheim
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If you asked yourself what in God’s name was the passage we discussed today, the corollary might be, and why does someone want to review such a page? Well, the answer to the former is to be unveiled very slowly and painfully over the next 165 postings (give or take) in this series, but an immediate answer to the latter is right at your digital fingertips (and faster is you have a credit card or that paypal thing!).
Back in 2016, before being a substack series, after being posted as a facebook series, there was this print and online version made available to the masses by the Rosenberg Foundation in Australia during a special exhibit in 2016. It came about as there was unexpected public demand due to the fact that it’s difficult to read 600 pages while standing up during a very crowded art exhibit. Especially with that small typeface…
