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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Kurt Schwitters"”.
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Assembling the Ineffable in Kurt Schwitters’ Architectural Models
… the early 1920s, the German artist and poet, Kurt Schwitters, developed a method of creating models of architecture using found objects based upon his Merz approach to art. While many leading architects joined the Arbeitsrat für Kunst and Bruno Taut's Gläserne Kette at the end of World War I …
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Performative autobiography as design attitude : the Merz-World of Kurt Schwitters
… of the First World War, middle class bourgeois Kurt Schwitters retreated into his studio in Hanover to literally nail together the ruins of a world that had fallen to pieces. In doing so, he produced one of the most controversial works of the early 20th century artistic avant-garde, the Merzbau. …
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Inventory for a Reverse Journey. Photographic Image and Found Object - An investigation of travel and material transformation as a paradigm of artist's practice: Ed Ruscha, Douglas Huebler, Bas jan Ader, Jimmie Durham, Gustav Metzger, Kurt Schwitters & Cian Quayle.
… the work of Jimmie Durham, Gustav Metzger and Kurt Schwitters is analysed in relation to their transformation of found objects and materials, and their relationship with a former 'home'. Their position registers different degrees of the `impossibility of return' to a point of origin, which …
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The Music of Language
… as well as constructed languages in the music of Kurt Schwitters, Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, Cathy Berberian, Stuart Saunders Smith, Adriano Celentano, and Eduard Khil. Unlike previous research of language-inspired music that has focused on individual composers and their works, this document …
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About snails, Franciscans, homelessness, and the city : a contribution to the culture of "college thinking"
… a variety of subject fields is connected to Kurt Schwitters collage techniques. The four pieces researched with four different research modes: Art, scientific research, report and design: 1. A collection of images and collages. This collection consists of images of snails, Franciscan …
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Beyond the Veil: Revealing the Hidden Qualities of Objects and Spaces through Electroacoustic Audiovisual Experiences
… exhibitions, along with earlier work produced by Kurt Schwitters, helped lay the foundations of installation art. At around the same time in France, Pierre Schaffer began experimenting with disc and magnetic tape to formulate his theory of musique concrète, helping to create the wider genre of …
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Psychologies and Spaces of Accumulation: The hoard as collagist methodology (and other stories)
… spaces and temporality in art practice (from Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau to Michael Landy’s Break Down and Tomoko Takahashi’s collation of objects) alongside new clinical research into Hoarding Disorder, I relate compulsion and space to a rationalisation of clutter in contemporary practice.
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The Bible and its modern methods: interpretation between art and text
… piece conducted in diaspora. The Merzbild by Kurt Schwitters entitled Green Over Yellow (1947) takes a critical Modern step away from representation and forward to abstraction. Schwitters assembled his cut-up forms to give them new visual value and made conspicuous their arbitrary edges and …
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Konzept der Collage
… gefunden hat. Das Werk und die Person von Kurt Schwitters stellt den historischen Angelpunkt im Diskurs der Moderne von seinen grosseuropäischen Ursprüngen, einschliesslich des osteuropäischen Bilddiskurses, zu der amerikanischen Weiterentwicklung dar, wovon Ruscha mit einer frühen Hommage, …