Ragnarok of Illusion
Richard Wagner's "Mystical Abyss" at Bayreuth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4967091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beat Wy, Beat Wyss, Denise Bratton |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Pages | 57 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/778669 |
| OpenAlex | W2326821980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
jurisdiction of the stage begins where the realm of worldly law leaves off, Friedrich Schiller remarks in his essay Stage as a Moral Institution, asserting further, Ifjustice is blinded by gold and indulges in the wages of vice, if the crimes of the powerful mock their impotence, then the stage must take up sword and scales and rend the vices before a terrible throne.' In 1784, the same year Schiller delivered this statement to the Kurpfalzisch Deutschen Gesellschaft in Mannheim, Nicolas Ledoux completed the theater at Besanion, and, for a panel decorating the entrance, he designed an eye that becomes a mirror of the space of the spectators. The pupil reflects an auditorium with a tiered theater, the colonnade above the tiers immediately suggesting its model: the Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza, which takes up the antique tradition of the tiered platform in the theater and even the circus arena.2 During the epoque of the French Revolution, this platform became an architectonic sign for the public that was associated with the ideals of the Greek polis and the Roman Republic. In Ledoux's eye, the public sees itself, takes itself as its own object or res, and thus politicizes itself. In the theater, people experience themselves as a public affair, as res publica. There is an unmistakable resemblance between the auditorium reflected in
Art · Art history · Cognitive psychology · Illusion · Literature · Mysticism · Cinema and Media Studies · German Literature and Culture Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
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| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |