From: The Art Bulletin | Date: June 1, 1995| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1995 College Art Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

As a contribution to anglophone criticism of the work of Kurt Schwitters, Dorothea Dietrich's monograph adopts an approach midway between the panoramic inclusiveness of a John Elderfield and the sharp focus upon single images of an Annegreth Nill. This study of the artist's collages is not quite as thoroughgoing as its title might suggest, inasmuch as its chronological span extends only to the late 1930s and ignores the rich last decade of Schwitters's exile. On the other hand, Dietrich's detailed exposition of a cycle of forty watercolor drawings (the Aquarelle of 1919), along with ...