Kurt Schwitters

Merz : Aller Anfang ist Merz : von Kurt Schwitters bis Heute

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Three stories

Karin Orchard

Sprengel Museum Hannover

Werke und Dokumente : Verzeichnis der Bestände im Sprengel Museum, Hannover

Jerome Rothenberg

A landmark anthology of Dada artist Kurt Schwitter's rejuvenating works: radical, humourous and explosively lyrical writings that embrace and undo every genre, prefiguring sound, concrete and abstract poetry, and laying the groundwork for performance art. Schwitter's passion was for juxtaposition, a breaking down of boundaries not for the sake of shock, but in the service of creative hilarity. Using visual nad verbal material drawn from teh debris of culture, Schwitters offers us a Gesamtkunstwerk for the common man.

Poems, Performance Pieces, Proses [sic], Plays, Poetics

Marlborough Fine Art Ltd

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Marlborough Fine Art (London) Limited, 2-31 October 1981.

Kurt Schwitters Im Exil

Shelley Frisch

The Story of the Hare

Theo van Doesburg

Kate Traumann Steinitz

Märchen

Die Scheuche

Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum

Jean Arp

Gunda Luyken

Rudi Fuchs

Museum der Bildenden Künste (Leipzig, Germany)

Siegfried Gohr

Rudolf Jahns

Ich ist Stil

Merz FOLIO

die gesammelten Anna Blume-Texte

Anna Blume und ich

Prosa 1918-1930

Das literarische Werk: Prosa, 1918-1930

Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters's death in 1948--including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a children's book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Schwitters wrote these darkly humorous, satirical, and surreal tales at a time when traditional German fairy tales were being co-opted by the Nazis. Filled with sharp critiques of German life during the Weimar and early Nazi eras, Schwitters's tales are rich with absurdist events and insist that not everyone--and perhaps not anyone--lives happily ever after. In Lucky Hans, the starving protagonist tries to catch a rabbit only to have it shed its fur like a coat and run off naked into the forest. In other tales, a sarcastic gypsy stands in for a fairy godmother and an army recruit is arrested for growing to monstrous size. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book.

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales

Kurt Schwitters

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