Magical Theatricality in the Ice Age Caves: Why it Should Matter to Socialists

Magical Theatricality in the Ice Age Caves: Why it Should Matter to Socialists

Orientation From the time of the Renaissance until representational art began to be challenged at the end of the 19th century, most of us think of secular art as consisting of separate disciplines – dance, theatre, singing, painting, sculpture and writing. The exception to this was the theatrical work of Richard Wagner, a German composer, theater director, essayist and conductor who understood that combining the arts can create altered states of…