The Collages of Kurt Schwitters
Subtitle: Tradition and Innovation
Edition: 1 Pbk ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 29, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521498913
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists; Individual Artist; Artists; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Germany; Schwitters, Kurt,; Art / General; 1887-1948; Biography
First sentence: In May 1919 the satirical magazine Der Simplicissimus published a cartoon by Karl Arnold entitled Das Ende vom Lied [The Song's End; or, The End of the Matter] (Fig. 1), which depicted a huge junk pile formed of the typical debris of a middle-class European household: broken chairs and bottles, household objects, the elaborately carved handles of a baby carriage, a lamp, a grand piano, even a stuffed bird.