Best known for his extraordinary abstract collages, German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is one of the most influential figures of the international avant-garde. Emphasizing the significance of colour and light in the artist's work and delving into the relationship between collage and painting, this handsome volume accompanies the first U.S. retrospective of the artist's oeuvre in twenty-five years. Affiliated with Dada and the Constructivist movement in the years following WWI, he coined the term merz to describe his ...
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Best known for his extraordinary abstract collages, German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is one of the most influential figures of the international avant-garde. Emphasizing the significance of colour and light in the artist's work and delving into the relationship between collage and painting, this handsome volume accompanies the first U.S. retrospective of the artist's oeuvre in twenty-five years. Affiliated with Dada and the Constructivist movement in the years following WWI, he coined the term merz to describe his ambition to 'make connections, preferably between everything in the world'. Schwitters' merz gave seemingly worthless objects of urban waste - train tickets, newspaper fragments, bits of wire - new life as compositional elements in his installations, assemblages, sculptures and collages. Hoping to unify life and art by incorporating everyday objects into his work, this pioneer of installation art came closest to his ideal with Merzbau, a room-size walk-in sculpture constructed entirely of found materials. Alongside images and analysis of a full-scale reconstruction of Merzbau, this book includes an illustrated chronology and 90 colour plates of Schwitters' assemblages, reliefs, sculptures and collages, with emphasis on merz works from the 1920s and 1940s. The selection not only illuminates the artist's response to the dominant art movements of his time but also illustrates his unique composition and design. Essays by prominent scholars provide new perspective on the artist who created poetry from the commonplace.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 176 pages 143 illustrations 129 in color. Fading to the dust-jacket spine now protected with a Mylar cover. Edited by Isabel Schulz. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from The Menil Collection, Houston TX 22 October 2010-30 January 2011, The Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ 26 March-5 June 2011 and the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley CA 3 August 2011-27 November 2011. Biography. Bibliography.
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Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Library stamps to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Excellent binding with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (11.75"-12.75" tall); 3.1 lbs; Tan dust jacket with title in black lettering; 2010, The Menil Collection; 176 pages; "Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, " by Isabel Schulz.
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Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Very light overall wear to the boards, but the bottom right corner of the front board is moderately "bumped"; The textblock edges are unblemished; One light blemish to the second endpaper, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; Excellent binding; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); Tan dust jacket with title in black lettering; 2010, The Menil Collection; 176 pages; "Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, " by Isabel Schulz.
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