The death and life of the total work of art : Henry van de Velde and the legacy of a modern concept ; [compendium of the essays presenting during the 12th International Bauhaus Colloquium 2013] Introduction Carsten Ruhl Rixt Hoekstra Chris Dähne From total design to total theory Carsten Ruhl Educating the Gesamtkunstwerk : Henry van de Velde and art school reform in Germany 1900 14 Katherine Kuenzli A collision of worlds : art and commerce in the age of Henry van de Velde John V. Maciuika Existenzminimum as Gesamtkunstwerk Robin Schuldenfrei Pans art and architecture : Theo van Doesburg and the question of the aesthetic unity of all the arts Matthias Noell Gesamtkunstwerk and gender : from domesticity to branding and back again Kathleen James Chakraborty Expressing politics in urban planning : two projects by Herman Sörgel for Munich between the monarchy and republic Rainer Schützeichel Symbolic dimension between nature and artifact : the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm Carlotta Torricelli The creative destruction of the total work of art : from Hegel to Wagner and beyond Wolfram Bergande Insular utopias : Henry van de Velde Peter Zumthor and the Gesamtkunstwerk Ole W. Fischer The notion of the total work of art and Italian building culture after World War II Silvia Malcovati Can the immigrant spreak : autonomy and participation in IBA 1984 87 Esra Akcan The critical arabesque : on Jean Luc Godards Nouvelle vague (1990) Regine Prange Acute aesthetics Anke Finger Architectures to be inhaled : constructing the ephemeral Ákos Moravánszky The Gesamtkunstwerk in the age of terror Esther da Costa Meyer