Matt Wates holds a PhD in History of Art from Bristol University, where he is currently a lecturer. He previously worked as a professional musician for thirty years and his research reflects his joint interest in music and the history of art.

• Contents: What Was the Gesamtkunstwerk? – Anselm Kiefer, History Painter – Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit: Synthesis, Purity and Synesthesia – Homo Europaeus: Wagner, Kiefer and Counter- Americanism – «The Whole Is the False»: The Gesamtkunstwerk, Kiefer and Theodor Adorno’s «Negative Dialectics» – Appendix: «Opera and Drama».

Matt Wates holds a PhD in History of Art from Bristol University, where he is currently a lecturer. He previously worked as a professional musician for thirty years and his research reflects his joint interest in music and the history of art.

• Contents: What Was the Gesamtkunstwerk? – Anselm Kiefer, History Painter – Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit: Synthesis, Purity and Synesthesia – Homo Europaeus: Wagner, Kiefer and Counter- Americanism – «The Whole Is the False»: The Gesamtkunstwerk, Kiefer and Theodor Adorno’s «Negative Dialectics» – Appendix: «Opera and Drama».

Matt Wates holds a PhD in History of Art from Bristol University, where he is currently a lecturer. He previously worked as a professional musician for thirty years and his research reflects his joint interest in music and the history of art.

• Contents: What Was the Gesamtkunstwerk? – Anselm Kiefer, History Painter – Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit: Synthesis, Purity and Synesthesia – Homo Europaeus: Wagner, Kiefer and Counter- Americanism – «The Whole Is the False»: The Gesamtkunstwerk, Kiefer and Theodor Adorno’s «Negative Dialectics» – Appendix: «Opera and Drama».