Kurt Schwitters: Merz (2016) – Norman Rosenthal interviews Damien Hirst

Original Recordings by Kurt Schwitters
Merz 13 Merz - Grammophonplatte. Scherzo of
“Ursonate” spoken by Kurt Schwitters. Hanover, 1925.
Anna Blume. Scherzo der Ursonate. Spoken by Kurt
Schwitters, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Stuttgart, May 5,
1932.
Kurt Schwitters. Urwerk. Ed. Robert Galitz, Kurt Kreiler,
and Klaus Gabbert. Frankfurt: Zweitausendeins, 2007.
Texts by Kurt Schwitters Published Posthumously
Kurt Schwitters. Das Iiterarische Werk. 5 vols. Ed. Friedhelm
Lach. Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1973 - 81.
Three Painter-Poets: Arp, Schwitters, Klee. Selected
Poems. Ed. by Harriet Watts. Baltimore, MD: Penguin
Books, 1974.
Kurt Schwitters. Wir spielen, bis uns der Tod abholt.
Briefe aus fünf Jahrzehnten. Ed. By Ernst Nündel.
Frankfurt: Ullstein, 1974.
The Merzbook: Kurt Schwitters Poems. Ed. by Colin
Morton. Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press, 1987.
The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. Ed. Robert
Motherwell. New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, 1951;
reprint, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press. 1989.
Schwitters: Norwegian Landscapes, the Zoological
Garden’s Lottery and More Stories. Ed. Per Kirkeby.
Hellerup, DK: Edtion Bløndal, 1995.
Kurt Schwitters: Poems, Performance Pieces, Proses,
Plays, Poetics. Ed. Pierre Joris, Jerome Rothenberg,
and Naomi Yang. Philadelphia: Temple University Press;
reprint, Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 2002.
Kurt Schwitters: Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales.
Ed. and trans. Jack Zipes; illustrated by Irvine Peacock.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Monographic Publications
Beaujean, Marion, and Maria Haldenwanger. Schwitters-
Archiv der Stadtbibliothek Hannover: Bestandsverzeichnis
1986. Hanover: Stadtbibliothek Hannover, 1986.
Brookes, V. J. “Fred.” “Schwitters in Exile: The Rural Art
of Kurt Schwitters 1937—1948.” PhD diss., University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, 1967.
Crossley, Barbara. The Triumph of Kurt Schwitters.
Ambleside, England: Armitt Trust, 2005.
Dietrich, Dorothea. The Collages of Kurt Schwitters.
Tradition and Innovation. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1993.
Elger, Dietmar. Der Merzbau von Kurt Schwitters: Eine
Werkmonographie. Kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek,
ed. Christian Posthofen, 12. Cologne: König, 1999.
Ewig, Isabelle. Kurt Schwitters Oxymore ou l’art de Ia
contradiction. PhD diss., Université Paris, Sorbonne.
Lille: A.N.R.T. Université de Lille Ill, 2000.
Fuchs, Rudi. Conflicts with Modernism or the Absence
of Kurt Schwitters. Vol. 1 of Theme and Objection. Bern:
Gachnang and Springer, 1991.
Gamard, Elizabeth Burns. Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau:
The Cathedral of Erotic Misery. New York; Princeton
Architectural Press, 2000.
Germundson, Curt Robert. “Kurt Schwitters in Hanover;
Investigation of the Cultural Environment.” PhD diss.,
University of Iowa, 2001.
Luke, Megan Rand. “Space for Recognition; The Late
Work and Exile of Kurt Schwitters (1930 - 1948).” PhD
diss., Harvard University, 2009.
Nih, Annegreth. “Decoding Merz: An Interpretative
Study of Kurt Schwitters’ Early Work, 1918—1922.” PhD
diss., University of Texas at Austin 1990.
Notz, Adrian, and Ulrich Christ. Merz World: Processing the
Complicated Order. Zurich: Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag, 2008.
Nündel, Ernst. Kurt Schwitters in Selbstzeugnissen und
Bilddokumenten. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1981.
Orchard, Karin, and Isabel Schulz. Kurt Schwitters. Werke
und Dokumente im Sprengel Museum Hannover/Kurt
Schwitters: Catalogue of the Works and Documents in
the Sprengel Museum Hannover. Hanover: Sprengel
Museum Hannover and Verein der Freunde des Sprengel
Museum Hannover, 1998.
Schmalenbach, Werner. Kurt Schwitters. New York: Harry
N. Abrams, 1967.
Sigrid, Franz. Kurt Schwitters’ Merz-Ästhetik im
Spannungsfeld der Künste. Freiburg im Breisgau:
Rombach, 2009.
Stadtmüller, Klaus. Schwitters in Norwegen: Arbeiten,
Dokumente, Ansichten. Hanover: Postskriptum, 1997.
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