Merz, Vorsicht: Anti-dada; Die Kathedrale
Artist: Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887-1948)
Publisher: Paul Steegemann, Hannover, 1920
Printer: Edler & Krische, Hannover-Berlin
Author: Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887-1948)
Date: 1920
Dimensions:
Book: H. 8 3/4 in. (223 mm); W. 5 5/8 in. (143 mm); Depth: 1/8 in. (3 mm).
Page: H: 8 3/4 in. (223 mm); W: 5 5/8 in. (143 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 8 transfer lithographs, incl. 1 with collage (cover).
Text: photolithography.
Paper: buff wove paper.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.1072
Label Text:The sophisticated publicity campaign and public success of Kurt Schwitters's book Anna Blume aroused a furious response from the Berlin Club Dada: "Dada rejects emphatically and as a matter of principle works like the famous 'Anna Blume' of Kurt Schwitters." The Berlin group repudiated his "static, snug bourgeois world" and his lack of political commitment. Schwitters struck back with the cover of Die Kathedrale, his 1920 publication of eight lithographs. He prominently inscribed "MERZ," his personal Dada movement, along with the warning "Beware: Anti-Dada" (Vorsicht: Anti-Dada).
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