Juliet Koss, associate professor of art history at Scripps College, published an excerpt from the introduction to her book, Modernism After Wagner (forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press), in Der Tagesspiegel, a German daily newspaper based in Berlin. Click here to read the article in English.
Koss writes that Modernism After Wagner “addresses a series of linked episodes in German aesthetic discourse and artistic practice from the revolution of 1848-49 to the playful figures of Bauhaus parties and performances in the 1920s and beyond and sets the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, and the notion of interdisciplinarity at the heart of modernism.”
Koss’s research and teaching center on European modernist art, architecture, and related fields, with an emphasis on Germany and Russia. In spring 2009, she will be a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, working on a new project on the symbolic value of architecture and construction in the Soviet Union between 1920 and 1938.