His early work made use of unexpected materials like pennies and masking tape. Later, he created trenchant word paintings ...

I wrote a forty-to-fifty-page treatment, which no one ever saw, of how the opera would unfold. And then I got that down to fifteen pages, which the composer saw, and then ten pages, which the ...

But of course, against such an exorbitant goal, his art was bound to fail. The romanticist movement was always caught, as Joseph Leo Koerner wrote in his indispensable 1990 book on Friedrich, “between ...