Kurt Schwitters: Merz A Total Vision Of The World

by Kurt Schwitters

264 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Kurt Schwitters was a painter, sculptor, designer and writer and worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. Between 1923-32, Schwitters edited the magazine Merz.

Reviews

[Iñäqui Ilarragorri · Rating 4 out of 5]

francisca deja de leer mis reseñas

[Philippe Malzieu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Merz is part of the word commerzbank. Schwitters thus named his movement. Schwitters, poête, painters… a total artist. This work allows us to apprehend all his works..
Collage particularly are successful. There are the phonetic poems. It is a structure poetic made up of sounds, of syllables, on a very particular rhythm. He named them ursonatten for insisting on their musical character. I declaimed them, it is very difficult.
Schwitters fled Germany Nazi in the U.K. Many of his works were destroyed like degenerated art. One finds work regularly on sale at ebay.The most of them are copy. I bought 2 of them. One carried the seal of Gertrude Stein. There is at least one who is true.

[Rhonda Hankins]

Big table top book with lots of essays I did not read and plenty of high quality photographs of Schweitzer’s’ collages.