The Collages of Kurt Schwitters: Tradition and Innovation - Couverture souple

Dietrich, Dorothea

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521498910 ISBN 13 : 9780521498913

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

An analysis of Schwitters's collages in social and artistic context.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

At the end of World War I, the German artist Kurt Schwitters dramatically broke with dominant artistic traditions by adopting collage as the primary medium for his literary and visual production. In The Collages of Kurt Schwitters: Tradition and Innovation, Dorothea Dietrich demonstrates how collages function for the artist. Characterising Schwitters's work as the product of the deep social and political crises of the Weimar Republic, Dietrich challenges the prevalent outlook that twentieth-century art can be reduced to a revolutionary struggle of avant-garde artists against an entrenched artistic tradition. The Collages of Kurt Schwitters argues for a more nuanced view, in which revolutionary art forms are exposed as containing much that is traditional and, indeed, reactionary.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521498910
• ISBN 13: 9780521498913
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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