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4. Merz Away from Home: Schwitters’s Exilic Imagination
Graham Bader
Description: Poisoned Abstraction: Kurt Schwitters between Revolution and Exile
Poisoned Abstraction: Kurt Schwitters between Revolution and Exile
In 1931, around the time he began to develop the Merzbau as an integrated environment and in the same year he first publicized the Cathedral of Erotic Misery in “Me and My Goals,” Schwitters completed his plywood assemblage...
Author
Graham Bader
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2021 by Graham Bader
Related print edition pages: pp.163-193
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00317.5
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22636
Chapter subject tags:Schwitters, Kurt, 1887-1948Exile (Punishment)Collage, GermanNationalism

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