Kurt Schwitters

London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. FIrst Paperback Edition. Small quarto in white glossy pictorial wraps; 424 pages: illustrations (some color); facsimile; plans; portraits; bibliography; notes; index; 27 cm Very good (+) to near fine; wraps are ever so slightly sunned at upper edge; else clean, tight, eminently readable. Paperback. ISBN: 0500274746

365 illustrations (32 in color) and 240 pages of biographical information, originally published to accompany an 1985 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) was an artist full of paradoxes. Conventionally trained, he painted academic portraits and landscapes all his life. But he was also an associate of Dadaists and Constructivists, and his assemblages of bits of wood, bus tickets, words and scraps of printed text have a compelling beauty which far transcends the anti-art movement of the First World War years. Others made assemblages, but no one else was at once so strict and so poetic in the use of the medium." --Back cover.

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