Tag Archives: Cosima Wagner

I’m O.K you’re not O.K: Death wish

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Dave

Self-destruction as aesthetic pleasure? The Aryan myth was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics at the end of the eighteenth-century. From there it assumed proportions of a full-fledged racial theory in the Romantic age that welded sentimentality, blood, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adolf Ziegler, Cosima Wagner, Franz Rosenzweig, Friedlander, Grosz, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Leni Riefenstahl, Maria tatar, Max Horkheimer, Richard and Cosima Wagner, Richard Wagner, Sontag, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

SWEET DREAMS & FLYING MACHINES

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Dave

Won’t you look down upon me, Jesus You’ve got to help me make a stand You’ve just got to see me through another day My body’s aching and my time is at hand And I won’t make it any other … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alfred Roller, Bright Lights Film Journal, Cosima Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, German Opera, Gustav Mahler, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Hans Richter, James Taylor, James taylor Fire and Rain, Marx Brothers, Mozart, Richard and Cosima Wagner, Richard Wagner, Terry Teachout, The Marx Brothers, Wagner Brunnhilde, Wagner Gotterdammerung, Wagner Rheingold, Wagner Siegfried, Wagner Tristan and Isolde, Werner Fassbinder | 1 Comment

FINE LINE BETWEEN THE HEROIC & THE IDIOTIC

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Dave

No other artist has made such ferocious demands upon his performers and the public. Richard Wagner, an autocrat, not only wrote the libretto and the music; often with total disregard for the human voice; but also flung into the score … Continue reading →