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The painter, collagist, typographer, and poet Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) was the creator of MERZ-art, which is two and three dimensional collage-like works using paper and discarded objects of everyd...
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In the following essay, Tillim explores Schwitters 's relationship to orthodox Dada.
The artistic substance of Dada has rarely, if ever, been treated to purely aesthetic dissection. The works o...
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In the following essay, Lach characterizes Schwitters's Merz works as avant-garde performances of creativity.
The rediscovery of Kurt Schwitters coincided with the discovery of the "even...
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In the following essay, Shaffer investigates the multiple genres of Schwitters's oeuvre—including visual and literary works: collages, poems, essays, performances, and plays. Shaffer con...
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In the following review of pppppp: Poems Performance Pieces Proses Plays Poetics, Perloff discusses the pitfalls of translating Schwitters's "abstract poetry. "
In a 1924 manifest...
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In the following essay, Elderfield examines the structure of Schwitters's collages and assemblages of 1917 to 1923, discussing aesthetic developments in his art during this period.
An object t...
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In the following essay, Thomson evaluates the ambiguous nature of Schwitters's "An Anna Blume" as art and anti-art, sense and nonsense, serious poetry and parody.
The recent reviv...
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In the following essay, Finke considers Schwitters as an early proponent of concrete poetry and discusses his contribution to the visualization of language in writing and art.
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In the following essay, Elderfield studies Schwitters's sculptural pieces, characterizing these as the artist's most personal works.
Schwitters' output as an artist was prodigious...
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In the following review, the unsigned critic laments the editorial flaws present in the first volume of Schwitters's Das literarische Werk, which make Schwitters "seem even more obscure,...
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In the following essay, Last surveys Schwitters's life, prose, and poetry, calling his work "a retreat from reality " into a "private world of shapes and patterns. "...
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Critical Review by Rex W. Last
SOURCE; "One Man's Merz," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 3808, February 28, 1975, p. 231.
In the following review, Last describes Schwitters&...
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In the following essay, Nill interprets Schwitters's assemblage Das Bäumerbild in the context of post-World War I German politics, finding in the work symbols of love and war.
While the Ha...
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Kurt Schwitters
Critical Essay by Sidney Tillim
