Best known for his extraordinary abstract collages, German artist Kurt Schwitters is one of the most influential figures of the international avant garde. Emphasizing the significance of color 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's 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...

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