Gesamtkunstwerke: Can a work of modern art ever achieve it?

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The following says:

-Yet, this can all still be understood within the context of a
centuries-long quest for the "total work of art," Hearon noted -- what
19th-century opera composer Richard Wagner called Gesamtkunstwerk:
sound, color, light and movement working together in the service of
drama.

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[Mike Scott Rohan]

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> The following says:

> -Yet, this can all still be understood within the context of a
> centuries-long quest for the "total work of art," Hearon noted -- what
> 19th-century opera composer Richard Wagner called Gesamtkunstwerk:
> sound, color, light and movement working together in the service of
> drama.

In anwer to the header question, yes, self-evidently. A modern cinema
film can hardly help achieveing it, since so many of those elements are
integral.

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