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Introduction: Schwitters’s Gift
Graham Bader
Description: Poisoned Abstraction: Kurt Schwitters between Revolution and Exile
Poisoned Abstraction: Kurt Schwitters between Revolution and Exile
The primary achievement of Kurt Schwitters’s art, the critic Walter Mehring wrote in an August 1919 review, was to utilize “objects themselves to achieve an objectless pictorial whole...
Author
Graham Bader
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2021 by Graham Bader
Related print edition pages: pp.1-15
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00317.1
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22632
Chapter subject tags:Schwitters, Kurt, 1887-1948Found objects (Art)Collage, GermanArt--Political aspects

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