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Kurt Schwitters: MERZ--a Total Vision of the World

Kurt Schwitters: MERZ--a Total Vision of the World

Kurt Schwitters

10 On alchemy, see Elizabeth Burns Gamard, Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Mistery, New York 2000, p. 141 and Kurt Schwitters, 'lch und meine Ziele', 1931, in Friedhelm Lach (ed.), Kurt Schwitters: Das literarische Werk: ...
Kurt Schwitters Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery

Kurt Schwitters Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery

Elizabeth Burns Gamard

Celine, Journey to the End of the Night From its inception Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau has been confused with the names of particular aspects of the project and even other projects altogether. Schwitters only added to the uncertainty surrounding ...
Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales

Kurt Schwitters

My remarks are primarily based on two excellent biographies, Ernst Niindel, Kurt Schwitters (Reinbek bei Hamburg: Ro- wohlt, 1981), and Gwendolen Webster, Kurz Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study (Cardiff: University of Cardiff, 1997), ...
Architecture

Architecture

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Sarah Palmer Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery, by Elizabeth Burns Gamard (Princeton Architectural Press) Though German artist Kurt Schwitters' important series of collages, called Merz, is well covered in art history, ...
Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study

Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study

Gwendolen Webster

Kurt Merz Schwitters not only examines the remarkable life of the artist but also explores the background to some of his greatest works, including his huge and enigmatic Cathedral of Erotic Misery, and places him in his historical context, ...
Europa! Europa?:

Europa! Europa?:

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30 Vgl. Gwendolen Webster, Kurt Merz Schwitters, Cardiff 1997, 35: “When engrossed in it [Merz] he [Schwitters] followed his own rules and regulations which often looked utterly eccentric, not to say scandalous, to others”. 31 Brief vom 10.
Brian Eno: Visual Music

Brian Eno: Visual Music

Christopher Scoates

110 Elizabeth Burns Gamard, Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau: The Cathedral ofErotic Misery (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000), 94. Schwitters created artwork, which he called Merz, using fragments and cast-off materials in an effort ...
Kurt Schwitters: A Journey Through Art

Kurt Schwitters: A Journey Through Art

Roger Cardinal

This overview of Schwitters's life and work sheds fresh light on his art, his writings, and his commercial ventures. It also offers a new perspective on the Merzbau, the monumental interior he referred to as his "life's work."
A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment

A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment

Richard Grayson

This book makes specific reference to Kurt Schwitters, whose seminal work, the Merzbau, is one of the confounding riddles of contemporary art.
Papers Read Before the Society

Papers Read Before the Society

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Taken from Elizabeth Burns Gamard. Kurt Schwitters ' Merzbau: The Ca1hedral of Erotic Misery, New York, 2000, p. 199. unf1nished when he left Germany in 1937 (Figure 5). Combining the elements of sculpture and architecture, the ...
An Apprehensive Aesthetic: The Legacy of Modernist Culture

An Apprehensive Aesthetic: The Legacy of Modernist Culture

Andrew McNamara

Elizabeth Burns Gamard, for example, argues that the formalist approach limits understanding of the complexity of a work like Kurt Schwitters' monumental assemblage, the Mer^bau, otherwise known as The Cathedral of Erotic Misery ( Die ...
Architectures of Chance

Architectures of Chance

Yeoryia Manolopoulou

aWar. and Peacefare at the Loaf House« in Architectural Design (no. 123, 1996), p. 39. 14 Kate Steinitz, quoted in Elizabeth Burns Gamard, Kurt Schwitters«s Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery (Princeton Architectural Press, 2000), p.
Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-garde

Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-garde

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But Elizabeth Burns Gamard explains that there is a major difference in the way Worringer and Schwitters use the cathedral: “In Schwitters, however, the ideological component of Worringer – the author's projection of a unique and exclusive ...
Kurt Schwitters: Space, Image, Exile

Kurt Schwitters: Space, Image, Exile

Megan R. Luke

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.
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut William Rodney Allen ... since I was a Chemistry major, I had very little instruction from the profoundly literary people. CR: And yet you refer frequently to writers like Celine 196 Two Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut Charles Reilly.
Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill ...

Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill ...

Kurt Weill

Last will and testament of Kurt Weill, 25 March 1944 In July 1950, the League of Composers again sponsored a Kurt Weill Concert — with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Maurice Levine — this time "as an expression of tribute to ...
Kurt Warner

Kurt Warner

A. R. Schaefer

No Division I colleges offered Kurt a scholarship. The only coach who recruited Kurt was Northern Iowa's Terry Allen. Northern Iowa is a Division I-AA school located in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The school's teams are called the Panthers. Kurt was ...
Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World

Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World

Kurt A. Raaflaub

Kurt A. Raaflaub ... Kurt A. Raaflaub, 2007); Household and Family Religion in Antiquity (eds.John Bodel and SaulOlyan, 2008); ... KurtA. Raaflaub Notes on Contributors EveMarie Becker is Professor of New Testament Series Editor's Preface.
Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer

Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer

Kurt Meyer

Known for his bold and aggressive leadership, Kurt 'Panzer' Meyer was one of the most highly decorated German soldiers of World War II. Successively commanding a motorcycle company, a reconnaissance battalion, a grenadier regiment, and the ...
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom. PETER FREESE. Kurt. Vonnegut's. Slaughterhouse-Five. or,. How. to. Storify. an. Atrocity. D. uring the night of February 13, 1945, three waves of British and ...
Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain

Michael Martin

A biography highlighting the life, career, and the impact of rock musician, Kurt Cobain.
Tribute: Kurt Cobain

Tribute: Kurt Cobain

Jayfri Hashim

The story Of Kurt Cobain retold in this graphic novel format.
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

Kurt Vonnegut

When someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience? Well, I’d like the guy—or the girl, of course—to put the book down and think, “This is the greatest man who ever lived.”
Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel

Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel

John Dawson

This authoritative biography of Kurt Goedel relates the life of this most important logician of our time to the development of the field.
Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume II: Publications 1938-1974

Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume II: Publications 1938-1974

Kurt Gödel

Publications 1938-1974 Kurt Gödel S. Feferman. Russell's mathematical logic* ( 1944) Mathematical logic, which is nothing else but a precise and complete formulation of formal logic, has two quite different aspects. On the one hand, it is a ...
Die Bundestagswahlkämpfe der FDP: 1949-2002

Die Bundestagswahlkämpfe der FDP: 1949-2002

Marco Michel

Wolfgang Döring beim Parteitag 1962 in Düsseldorf, zit nach Kurt J Körper, Bilanz, S. 30 505 Vgl. Kurt J Körper, Bilanz, S 31. 506 Hildegard Hamm-Brücher in ihrer Rede beim Parteitag 1963 in München, zit nach Kurt J Körper, Bilanz, S. 32.
Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love: In Their Own Words

Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love: In Their Own Words

Kurt Cobain

Features quotes gathered over the years from family, friends, and the artists themselves, giving the reader a personal insight into their music and world.

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