Götterdämmerung Without Flames

日本語要約

19世紀後半、リヒャルト・ワーグナーは芸術作品の生産と消費の関係について、極端な見解を抱いていた。彼は作品の権利を売ることを嫌悪し、公衆や国家に帰属すべきだと考えた一方で、晩年にはブルジョワジーの影響を受けない貴族による芸術支援を理想視した。

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In the late 19th century, talking about attention was all the rage. And of all that century’s artists and thinkers, Richard Wagner had perhaps the most wildly oscillating views on the fraught relationship between the production and consumption of works of art. At times, these views were a holdover from his revolutionary days: He held an extreme disdain for the very notion of selling the rights to one’s work, which he believed should belong to the general public or, more problematically, “the nation.” At others, they were authoritarian and bizarre. Closer to the end of his artistic output, Wagner longed for a kind of indolent, benevolent aristocracy whose members, unsullied by vulgar bourgeois productive forces, could become true, steadfast, and unusually receptive patrons of the arts. Unli

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