Kurt Merz Schwitters. Indywidualny Gesamtkunstwerk
Kurt Merz Schwitters. An Individual Gesamtkunstwerk

Summary/Abstract: Przemysław Strożek presents the work of avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters, who is known as MERZ. Strożek presents MERZ’s theory, in aiming to “collect and use materials of all kinds to create something utterly new out of unusual combinations, something re-imagined as a work of art.” In outlining Schwitters’s vast output, he describes the execution of MERZ’s ideas in the sphere of the visual arts – MERZbild, the MERZbühne theater concept, Normalbühne MERZ, and architectural pieces – MERZbau. As Strożek notes, Schwitters’s project was meant to efface the boundaries between art and reality. The result: “He himself […] became the aesthetic creation.”

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