Lucky Hans and other Merz fairy tales
By: Kurt Schwitters ; translated and introduced by Jack Zipes ; illustrated by Irvine Peacock.
Contributors: Peacock, Irvine.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780691139678
Subjects: Schwitters, Kurt, -- 1887-1948 -- Translations into English; Schwitters, Kurt, -- 1887-1948; Schwitters, Kurt, -- 1887-1948
Work titles: Selections.
Description: "Burt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters's death in 1948 - including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a children's book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Translation of selections from: Der glückliche Hans and Merz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.