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Using Daniel Albright’s Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts (2000) and Panaesthetics: On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts (2014) as guides, this class investigates the idea of collaboration and communication across and between the arts from the late nineteenth century to the present. Albright’s book includes the famous dictum: “The great Modernist collaborations all survive as fragments.” This class examines and, as possible, reassembles and reassesses these fragments. Among other artistic collaborations, topics will include dialogues between Eric Satie, Pablo Picasso, and Jean Cocteau; Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein; and John Cage and Merce Cunningham; as well as Richard Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk—“Total work of art”—and its implications for artistic interrelationships from his time to now, including its impact on Serge Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, among many others.