David Wellbery (LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought, at the University of Chicago) and Berthold Hoeckner (Associate Professor of Music at the University of Chicago) discuss Romanticism, Goethe, and the idea of the "total work of art" as part of the Smart's 40th anniversary exhibition Objects and Voices: A Collection of Stories (February 12–June 21, 2015).