Kurt Schwitters, an excremental mystic

Author

Pickstone, Charles

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Modern painters. 1991, Num. 4, Vol. 4, 72-73, 2 col. ill.

ISSN

0953-6698

Abstract (en)

Argues that Schwitters, in his scatological works (especially Merzbau), regressed to the infantile as a source for inspiration in order to renew the language of European art and to deal with the fragmentation and repressed material of contemporary society. Notes the irony of his end in the pastoral landscape of the Lake District.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Germany
• Schwitters, Kurt, 1887-1948
• Architecture
• Germany
• 1900-2000
• Germans
• Lake District (GBR)
• Great Britain
• Merzbau

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Allemagne
• Schwitters, Kurt, 1887-1948
• Architecture
• Allemagne
• 1900-2000
• Allemands
• Lake District (GBR)
• Grande-Bretagne
• Merzbau

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940101-00338042

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