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Kurt Schwitters

Author : Megan R. Luke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022609037X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Schwitters written by Megan R. Luke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) is best known for his pioneering work in fusing collage and abstraction, the two most transformative innovations of twentieth-century art. Considered the father of installation art, Schwitters was also a theorist, a Dadaist, and a writer whose influence extends from Robert Rauschenberg and Eva Hesse to Thomas Hirschhorn. But while his early experiments in collage and installation from the interwar period have garnered much critical acclaim, his later work has generally been ignored. In the first book to fill this gap, Megan R. Luke tells the fascinating, even moving story of the work produced by the aging, isolated artist under the Nazi regime and during his years in exile. Combining new biographical material with archival research, Luke surveys Schwitters’s experiments in shaping space and the development of his Merzbau, describing his haphazard studios in Scandinavia and the United Kingdom and the smaller, quieter pieces he created there. She makes a case for the enormous relevance of Schwitters’s aesthetic concerns to contemporary artists, arguing that his later work provides a guide to new narratives about modernism in the visual arts. These pieces, she shows, were born of artistic exchange and shaped by his rootless life after exile, and they offer a new way of thinking about the history of art that privileges itinerancy over identity and the critical power of humorous inversion over unambiguous communication. Packed with images, Kurt Schwitters completes the narrative of an artist who remains a considerable force today.

Kurt Schwitters

Author : Kurt Schwitters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781872784526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Schwitters written by Kurt Schwitters and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurt Schwitters: Artist Philosopher is published to accompany an exhibition at Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. In his essay Mel Gooding focuses on what Kurt Schwitters is most famous for--the abstract collages that he began to make in the winter of 1918/19 using found and everyday objects such as labels, bus tickets, fabric and bits of broken wood. They were born out of his feeling that, after the war, "Everything had broken down and new things had to be made out of the fragments; and this is Merz." Schwitters' undogmatic and nonelitist art, by elevating the rejected, the discarded and the useless to fine art, inspired such postwar pioneers as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton and Joseph Beuys, and he is now seen as the grandfather of many post-1945 art movements, from Pop art to Conceptual, installation and performance art.

Poisoned Abstraction

Author : Graham Bader
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300257082
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Poisoned Abstraction written by Graham Bader and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive resource, full of fresh insights and new revelations, on one of the most influential interwar artists This richly illustrated book offers a definitive new assessment of the oeuvre of Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), a central figure of the interwar European avant-garde. Active as an artist, designer, publisher, performer, critic, poet, and playwright, Schwitters is best known for intimately scaled, materially rich collages and assemblages made from found objects--often refuse--that the artist described as having lost all contact with their role and history in the world at large. Considering works reaching from Schwitters's earliest collage-based pieces of 1918-19, through his 1920s advertising designs, to his seminal environmental installation the Merzbau, Graham Bader carefully unpacks the meaning behind such projects and sheds new light on the tumultuous historical conditions in which they were made. In the process, he reveals a new Schwitters--aesthetically committed and politically astute--for our time. This authoritative account reframes our understanding of Schwitters's multifaceted artistic practice and explores the complex entwinement of art, politics, and history in the modern period.

Kurt Schwitters Merzbau

Author : Elizabeth Burns Gamard
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981369
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Schwitters Merzbau written by Elizabeth Burns Gamard and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Building Studies series examines important buildings through original documents, detailed text, photography, and drawings in an affordable format.

Myself and My Aims

Author : Kurt Schwitters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226129396
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Myself and My Aims written by Kurt Schwitters and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first anthology in English of the critical and theoretical writings of the great German artist Kurt Schwitters, considered by scholars, museums, devotees, and collectors alike to be one of the most important "thinking artists" of the twentieth century, surpassed only by Marcel Duchamp in his influence on subsequent generations. Throughout his life Schwitters wrote and published in many genres-and across genres. His children's stories and his poetry and fiction have been translated into English, as have a handful of essays. But most of his critical writing has never been translated into English, and this volume even includes material that has never been published in any language--until now. Schwitters was a prolific writer, lecturer, and critic who penned important works about architecture and design, "the problem of painting" (before it was fashionable to do so), media, aesthetics, style, abstraction, concrete writing, politics, and more. Issuing this book will be a major publishing event in the history of modern art and in the history of this extraordinary artist. The translations are superb, making the volume an extraordinary resource for art historians, curators, critics, and artists. Megan Luke's introduction is accessible, and for the first time, a large field of Schwitters's writing is available not just to Anglophone readers but to readers of numerous nationalities who consider English the lingua franca of their work"--

Kurt Schwitters

Author : Kurt Schwitters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Schwitters written by Kurt Schwitters and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Artists & Prints

Author : Deborah Wye
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 9780870701252
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Artists & Prints written by Deborah Wye and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.

Ich ist Stil

Author : Kurt Schwitters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ich ist Stil written by Kurt Schwitters and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Schwitters Miró Arp

Author : Dieter Buchhart
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791355929
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Schwitters Miró Arp written by Dieter Buchhart and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore the mutual influence of the groundbreaking modernists Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miro&́, and Hans Arp. Featuring approximately 100 key works, along with numerous reference images, this book explores the work of Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miro&́, and Hans Arp and the ways in which the artists influenced each others’ artistic pursuits. It examines the artists’ shared commitment to geometric forms over natural ones and their individual strategies for fusing painting and sculpture to mine the depths of assemblage. United by an impulse to renew and transform art, to "assassinate" painting, Schwitters, Miro&́, and Arp experimented with collage and assemblage in order to build on the achievements of Cubism and break with prior traditions. Not only did their work resonate within their own artistic circles, but it continues to inspire subsequent generations to this day.

Kurt Schwitters; a Portrait from Life

Author : Kate Traumann Steinitz
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Schwitters; a Portrait from Life written by Kate Traumann Steinitz and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Collages of Kurt Schwitters

Author : Dorothea Dietrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521498913
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book The Collages of Kurt Schwitters written by Dorothea Dietrich and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War I, the German artist Kurt Schwitters dramatically broke with dominant artistic traditions by adopting collage as the primary medium for his literary and visual production. In The Collages of Kurt Schwitters: Tradition and Innovation, Dorothea Dietrich demonstrates how collages function for the artist. Characterising Schwitters's work as the product of the deep social and political crises of the Weimar Republic, Dietrich challenges the prevalent outlook that twentieth-century art can be reduced to a revolutionary struggle of avant-garde artists against an entrenched artistic tradition. The Collages of Kurt Schwitters argues for a more nuanced view, in which revolutionary art forms are exposed as containing much that is traditional and, indeed, reactionary.

Kurt Schwitters in England

Author : Stefan Themerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Schwitters in England written by Stefan Themerson and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Merzbook

Author : Colin Morton
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Quarry Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Merzbook written by Colin Morton and published by Kingston, Ont. : Quarry Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Day of the Artist

Author : Linda Patricia Cleary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320549431
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Day of the Artist written by Linda Patricia Cleary and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl, one painting a day...can she do it? Linda Patricia Cleary decided to challenge herself with a year long project starting on January 1, 2014. Choose an artist a day and create a piece in tribute to them. It was a fun, challenging, stressful and psychological experience. She learned about technique, art history, different materials and embracing failure. Here are all 365 pieces. Enjoy!

Dada in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 9780870706684
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Dada in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dada: The Collections of The Museum of Modern Art is the first publication devoted exclusively to MoMA's unrivalled collection of Dada works. Beginning with a core group acquired on the occasion of the landmark Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition of 1936, enriched in 1953 by a bequest selected by Marcel Duchamp, and steadily augmented over the years, the Museum's Dada collection presents the movement in its full international and interdisciplinary scope during its defining years, from 1916 through 1924. Catalyzed by the major Dada exhibition that appeared in Paris, Washington, D.C., and at The Museum of Modern Art in 2005-6, the book benefits from the latest scholarly thinking, not only as found in the exhibition's catalogues but also in the critical responses to them, as well as in an ambitious series of seminars organized around the show. Featuring generously illustrated essays that focus on a selection of the Museum's most important Dada works, this publication highlights works in many media, including books, journals, assemblages, collages, drawings, films, paintings, photographs, photomontages, prints, readymades and reliefs. It also includes a comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's Dada holdings, including those in the Museum's Archives and Library. Edited by Anne Umland and Adrian Sudhalter, members of the Museum's Department of Painting and Sculpture, this book inaugurates an ambitious new series of scholarly catalogues on the Museum's collection.

The Frame and the Mirror

Author : Thomas P. Brockelman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810117754
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Frame and the Mirror written by Thomas P. Brockelman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the postmodern is a collage--as some critics have suggested--or if collage is itself a kernel of the postmodern, what does this mean for our way of understanding the world? The Frame and the Mirror uses this question to probe the distinctive character of the postmodern situation and the philosophical problem of representation. Brockelman's work is itself a collage of sorts, using juxtapositions of critics and art historical figures to conduct a debate between such figures as Karsten Harries, Gianni Vattimo, Rosalind Krauss, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Slavo Zizek, and Le Corbusier about issues such as truth in art, perspectivism, theatricality, the sublime, psychoanalytic theory, politics, and urbanism. More than an introduction to the postmodern, The Frame and the Mirror advances our understanding of the contemporary world by relating its features to the peculiar characteristics of collage. Ultimately, Brockelman shows how collage demands that we reinterpret modernity, conceiving of it as suspended between a loss of certainty and a new kind of knowledge about the human condition. In doing so, his work challenges many of the claims made in the name of postmodernism--and offers in their place a new and ironic view of the cultural space in which contemporary and historical events occur.

The Dada Painters and Poets

Author : Robert Motherwell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674185005
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Dada Painters and Poets written by Robert Motherwell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations that provide an overview of the Dada movement in art, describing its convictions, antics, and spirit, through the words and art of its principal practitioners.