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Kurt Schwitters

Anna Blume
Oh thou, beloved of my twenty-seven senses, I love thine!
Thou thee thee thine, I thine, thou mine, we?
That (by the way) is beside the point!
Who art thou, uncounted woman, Thou art, art thou?
People say, thou werst,
Let them say, they don't know what they are talking about.
Thou wearest thine hat on thy feet, and wanderest on thine hands,
On thine hands thou wanderest
Hallo, thy red dress, sawn into white folds,
Red I love Eve Blossom, red I love thine [...]

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UPDATED 10/02/05 LANDSCAPE AGENCY NEW YORK / RADAR SELECT TEXTS - SCHWITTERS Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 3, 1937-1946 (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005) Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, 1923-1936 (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2003) Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. I, 1905-1922 (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2001) Annja Müller-Alsbach, Heinz Stahlhut (eds.), Kurt Schwitters: MERZ - A Total Vision of the World (Wabern/Bern: Benteli Verlag, 2004) Michael Webster, Reading Visual Poetry after Futurism : Marinetti, Apollinaire, Schwitters, Cummings (New York: Peter Lang, 1995) Rudi Fuchs et alia, Kurt Schwitters: I is Style (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2000) - Includes letters to/from Schwitters regarding his attempts to emigrate to the United States (and the 'helplessness' of Alfred Barr, Gropius et alia). Kurt Schwitters in Exile: The Late Work 1937-1948 (London: Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., 1981) Elisabeth Burns Gamard, Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998) - For excerpts see "Stunned - Merzbau", link below. Dorothea Dietrich, The Collages of Kurt Schwitters: Tradition & Innovation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993) Serge Lemoine (ed.), Kurt Schwitters (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1994) Hans Richter, Dada: Art & Anti-Art (London: Thames & Hudson, 1997) - Includes a magnificent re-telling of the early days of Dada in Zurich (c.1916), by Richter, a member of the early configuration of poets and artists (Arp, Tzara, Janco ...) that spawned this transhistorical radical art movement later re-deployed in Paris, Berlin, Prague and New York to lesser but more commercially viable effect. Giancarlo Buonfino, Massimo Cacciari, Francesco Dal Co, Avanguardia, Dada, Weimar (Venice: Arsenale Cooperativa Editrice, 1978) SELECT OUTTAKES - DADA & NEO-DADA Musée Imaginaire (France) La Dadaisme (France) Dada-U (Switzerland) Regarding Schwitters' time (exile) in Ambleside (the English Lake District), see The Ambleside Museum & Armitt Library. For additional on-line material on the work of Kurt Schwitters, see Studio Cleo. SEE ALSO, Dad@rt (France) - "Dad@rt entend favoriser la connaissance du Mouvement Dada (1915-1925), de ses protagonistes, artistes, écrivains, poètes et autres qui l'ont inspiré et animé." - Includes extensive bibliographical index of Dada literature and criticism MORE SCHWITTERS - Artchive - Soroptimist - Collage Gallery - Stunned

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