Gesamtkunstwerk - Modern Art Terms and Concepts
The word Gesamtkunstwerk is often used to describe the Aalto House and other buildings they designed. It’s a work that uses multiple disciplines—like architecture, furniture design, textile design—to produce a coherent, total work of art.
a softer, gentler modernism: on alvar & aino aalto
The word Gesamtkunstwerk is often used to describe the Aalto House and other buildings they designed. It’s a work that uses multiple disciplines—like architecture, furniture design, textile design—to produce a coherent, total work of art.
a softer, gentler modernism: on alvar & aino aalto
“Total work of art” has associations of dominance, control, spectacle, finality that we don’t feel entirely describes our practices. What control is even possible, we ask, in a gig economy, where we are required to switch modes, pass between contexts, and move between mediums constantly?