The Death and Life of the Total Work of Art – Henry van de Velde and the Legacy of a Modern Concept
ISBN 978-3-86859-261-0
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1 Albert Speer: Lichtdom (light dome), Nazi party rally grounds in Nürnberg, September 1936.<br />
2 Adolf Hitler—Deutschl<strong>and</strong> soll schöner wer<strong>de</strong>n!<br />
<strong>the</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s), he stresses <strong>the</strong> fact that with <strong>the</strong> i<strong>de</strong>a <strong>of</strong> an all-encompassing art—<strong>the</strong><br />
so-called Verfransungsprozess—any critical distance to <strong>the</strong> existing society has been<br />
lost. 13 Quite <strong>the</strong> contrary: it turned into an aes<strong>the</strong>tic formalism that no longer allows<br />
for resistance to <strong>the</strong> ruling political forces. Thus, <strong>the</strong> philosopher Boris Groys<br />
was no longer willing to accept <strong>the</strong> Gesamtkunstwerk as a harmless i<strong>de</strong>a exclusively<br />
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