Kurt Schwitters
Subtitle: MERZ--a total vision of the world
By: [editing, Annja Müller-Alsbach, Heinz Stahlhut].
Contributors: Müller-Alsbach, Annja.; Stahlhut, Heinz.; Museum Jean Tinguely Basel.
Publisher: Benteli
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Wabern/Bern
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Schwitters, Kurt, -- 1887-1948 -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: MERZ--a total vision of the world.
Notes: "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition ... Museum Tinguely, Basel 1 May - 22 August 2004"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-261).
Table of contents: title: The new optics : Kurt Schwitters, Carola Giedion-Welcker and Sigfried Giedion / Iris Bruderer-Oswald; title: Merzbau. Kurt Schwitter's spatial growths / Karin Orchard ; Notes on the reconstruction of the Merzbau / Peter Bissegger ; Merzbauaftermerz / Eric Hattan ; Anarchistic proliferation : safe and secure / Eric Hattan; title: 'One can use waste material to shout out loud'. Merzpicture horse grease : art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Beat Wyss ; Contesting architecture and social space / Jakob Kolding ; Nine written questions about Kurt Schwitters / Daniel Spoerri; title: Merz in the machine age. Cogs and wheels / Christoph Bignens ; The Raddadist machine / Kurt Schwitters ; The machine and I / Konrad Klapcheck; title: Merz is not Dada. 'Related opposites' : differences in mentality between Dada and Merz / Ralf Burmeister ; For me there is no such thing as unpolitical art / Klaus Staeck ; 'dada is important to me' / Thomas Hirschhorn; title: Games with chance. Schwitters and chance / Christian Janecke ; The Brazilian baked apple tube / Jean Tinguely; title: The tale of paradise : Dada, Merz and the 'other' oeuvre / Juri Steiner; title: Kurt Schwitters : a virtual reminiscence / Karl Gerstner.