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.
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"Dorothea Dietrich's impressive monograph forces us to confront the dark side of modernism...." Detlef Mertins, The Print Collector's Newsletter
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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.
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A informative discussion of Schwitters work that is both scholarly and accessible. If you want critical analysis and historical perspective, then this is the book for you (it is NOT a superficial, coffee table book with pictures). Thoughtful and thought provoking. I'd recommend this book to anyone in learning more about Schwitters.
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In May 1919 the satirical magazine Der Simplicissimus published a cartoon by Karl Arnold entitled Das Ende vom Lied [The Song's End; or, The End of the Matter] (Fig. 1), which depicted a huge junk pile formed of the typical debris of a middle-class European household: broken chairs and bottles, household objects, the elaborately carved handles of a baby carriage, a lamp, a grand piano, even a stuffed bird. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
individual grottoes, totalizing tradition, poetic narrator, abstract collages, expressionist poetry, naturalistic painting, collage elements, collage style, paper fragments, prize question, watercolor drawings, reactionary modernism, collage materials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anna Blume, Berlin Dada, Der Sturm, Weimar Republic, Die Zwiebel, New York, Haus Merz, Marlborough Fine Art, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, Herwarth Walden, John Heartfield, Social Democratic, World War, Free Corps, Max Pechstein, Cathedral of Erotic Misery, Das Herz, Franz Marc, Georg Simmel, Richard Huelsenbeck, Treaty of Versailles, Walter Benjamin, Zurich Dada, Adolf Behne New!
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In May 1919 the satirical magazine Der Simplicissimus published a cartoon by Karl Arnold entitled Das Ende vom Lied [The Song's End; or, The End of the Matter] (Fig. 1), which depicted a huge junk pile formed of the typical debris of a middle-class European household: broken chairs and bottles, household objects, the elaborately carved handles of a baby carriage, a lamp, a grand piano, even a stuffed bird. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
individual grottoes, totalizing tradition, poetic narrator, abstract collages, expressionist poetry, naturalistic painting, collage elements, collage style, paper fragments, prize question, watercolor drawings, reactionary modernism, collage materials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anna Blume, Berlin Dada, Der Sturm, Weimar Republic, Die Zwiebel, New York, Haus Merz, Marlborough Fine Art, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, Herwarth Walden, John Heartfield, Social Democratic, World War, Free Corps, Max Pechstein, Cathedral of Erotic Misery, Das Herz, Franz Marc, Georg Simmel, Richard Huelsenbeck, Treaty of Versailles, Walter Benjamin, Zurich Dada, Adolf Behne New!
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- Kurt Schwitters (Painters & sculptors) by John Elderfield on 9 pages
- New York (Land of Liberty) by Ellen Sturm on 8 pages
- Kurt Schwitters by Werner Schmalenbach on 6 pages
- Passion and Rebellion: The Expressionist Heritage by Stephen Eric Bonner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Decline of the West (Abridged) by Oswald Spengler on page 179, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The European Avant-Gardes: Art in France and Western Europe 1904-c.1945 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection) by Christopher Green on page 422, and page 428
- The Visual Arts in Germany, 1890-1937: Utopia and Despair by Shearer West on page 104
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