La configuración del espectáculo audiovisual en el Madrid de comienzos del siglo XIX: la fantasmagoría como preludio del arte total

Abstract

This article tries to establish how at the beginning of the 19th century, within the Madrid public entertainment billboard, phantasmagoria began to be announced as a new show that captured much interest in the press of the time. However, the details of what really involved this show, which had its technological origin in the magic lantern, encompasses beyond its own projection qualities. From the conjunction of different areas of cultural history, the fundamental objective of this study aims to contribute to the ideation and reflection of what said show could have supposed as an integrating element of total art, decades before Richard Wagner theorized about said condition of unification of the arts. From these premises, it is intended to explore the areas in which said public entertainment was developed as a phenomenon that stimulates visual fantasies that integrates various audiovisual, scenic, artistic, scientific and pseudoscientific functions and qualities.