Merz, Vorsicht: Anti-dada; Die Kathedrale
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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
Date1920
DimensionsBook: 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).
Page: H: 8 3/4 in. (223 mm); W: 5 5/8 in. (143 mm).
MediumOriginal prints: 8 transfer lithographs, incl. 1 with collage (cover).
Text: photolithography.
Paper: buff wove paper.
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number
1984.1072
Not on View
Collections
Published Referencescf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 278
- Works on Paper
cf. Castleman, Riva, A Century of Artists' Books, New York, 1994, p. 158
cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 32.
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 77Toledo Museum of Art, DaDA dADa daDa dada, Feb. 2-Apr. 2, 2001 (covers and "valori" spread were used)
Toledo Museum of Art, Between the Wars, Sept. 5-Dec.31 2008.
Toledo Museum of Art, Werner Pfeiffer Selects, Feb. 13-May 10, 2015.
Label TextThe 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).
Kurt Schwitters
[1922]
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