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A Perfect Package - Rethinking Kurt Schwitters' Merz barn
- Author(s):
- Gwendolen Webster (see profile)
- Date:
- 2012
- Group(s):
- German Literature and Culture
- Subject(s):
- Art, History, Dadaism, Installations (Art), Germans--Social life and customs, Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Kurt Schwitters, Lake District, Merzbau, Picturesque, Art history, Dada, Exile studies, Installation art, Weimar culture, Wordsworth
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6W66980V
- Abstract:
- John Elderfield's 1985 study of Kurt Schwitters more than once relates his work to the Picturesque tradition, likening him to those early Picturesque travellers who surveyed landscape through city eyes. Taking Elderfield's idea as a starting -point, this essay contests the widely held claim that Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn was conceived as a private, regressive work that manifests the artist's retreat from 20th century avant-garde practices.
- Notes:
- Readers should note that since this article was written, Claife Station has been restored and is now open to the public.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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