Merz

by Schwitters, Kurt; Orchard, Karin; Meyer-Buser, Susanne; Meyer-Buser, Susanne; Orchard, Karin

• ISBN13: 9783775709514
• ISBN10: 3775709517
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Text by Dietmar Elger, Anette Kruszynski, Isabel Ewig, Justin Hoffman, Gerhard Schaub, Julia Schmidt.

Table of Contents

Prefaces	6	(8)
Foreword	8	(2)
Introduction	10	(3)
Plates	13	(221)
Kurt Schwitters and Hanover, or of the Trade and the Traffic of the Residents in the Settlement where Mr Schwitters is Forced to Live	234	(10)
Ines Katenhusen
``What Would Life be Without Merz?'' On the Evolution and Meaning of Kurt Schwitters' Concept of Art	244	(8)
Isabel Schulz
``My Goal is the Merzgesamtkunstwerk...'' on the Unity of Kurt Schwitters' oeuvre	252	(8)
Anette Kruszynski
``Atelier Merzbau''--The Merzbau in the Tradition of Artists' Studios and the Problems of its Reconstruction	260	(10)
Ulrich Krempel
On Disappearing in Space--Walk-In Collages from Schwitters to the Present Day	270	(10)
Susanne Meyer-Buser
The Eloquence of Waste Kurt Schwitters' Work and Its Reception in America	280	(10)
Karin Orchard
Father of the Fathers of Pop: Kurt Schwitters	290	(6)
Isabelle Ewig
Kurt Schwitters and Nouveau Realisme	296	(6)
Dietmar Elger
``Crumple and Turbulate'' Kurt Schwitters and the Action Art of the 1960S	302	(8)
Justin Hoffmann
``You Can't Avoid Schwitters'' on the Critical Reception of the Merz Poet Since 1945	310	(10)
Gerhard Schaub
List of Works	320	(12)
Artists' Biographies	332	(10)
Authors' Biographies	342	(1)
Index of Names	343	(2)
Photo Credits	345