{"id":211,"date":"2022-07-28T06:52:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2022-07-28T06:52:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:52:55","slug":"anti-gesamtkunstwerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/anti-gesamtkunstwerk\/","title":{"rendered":"anti-Gesamtkunstwerk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220728_144109-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220728_144109-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220728_144109-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220728_144109-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220728_144109-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220728_144109-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220728_144109-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In these 2 pages, the personified 19th and 20th centuries, represented by the distinct typography, debate their relative merits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is an idea from opera, the Gesamtkunstwerk, of an art form that is a synthesis of all other art forms. Opera was meant to be it though these days perhaps video games are the Gesamtkunstwerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A book seems almost the antithesis of that. Yet because of the medium&#8217;s relative minimalism, deconstructing and remixing the format of the medium, like Rian Hughes&#8217; XX does here, ends up being more exciting sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these 2 pages, the personified 19th and 20th centuries, represented by the distinct typography, debate their relative merits. There is an idea from opera, the Gesamtkunstwerk, of an art form that is a synthesis of all other art forms. Opera was meant to be it though these days perhaps video games are the Gesamtkunstwerk. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}