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Concept of Gesamtkunstwerk in Ivan Meštrović’s oeuvre: at the intersection of art, politics, religion and self-reflection

This study examines three architectural- sculptural projects of Ivan Meštrović which clearly demonstrate the artist’s understanding and application of Gesamtkunstwerk as a special form of artistic creation: the Temple of Vidovdan, the Church of Our Lady of Angels in Cavtat and the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in Otavice. This text shows to which degree the Gesamtkunstwerk protocol was important for the interpretation of Meštrović’s architectural creations. It explains and interprets how Meštrović, as almost no other modernist artist in Croatia, brought closer and united – at that time largely divided – architectural and sculptural forms into an inseparable artistic complex, subsequently immersing them in the spectre of different contextual social, political, religious or self-reflexive units. The study shows how the nature of the Gesamtkunstwerk protocol changed from a building impregnated with pronounced political activism before and during World War I to a somewhat more reflexive in nature sacral- memorial spaces created after the war and during the 1920s. It is important to mention that the interpretation of the «total work of art» is abandoned as an exclusively Larpurlartist and aesthetic issue, and that different other functions are assigned in the framework of wider social, historical- political and religious contexts.

Ivan Mestrovic ; gesamtkunstwerk ; Vienna ; art deco ; ideology

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