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Kurt Schwitters. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
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August 3, 1985|
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Kurt Schwitters
Whoever has visited any representative collection of modern European art, and especially of the paintings of the 1920s, will have encountered --and remembered--two or three of Kurt Schwitters's unmistakable collages, or Merzbilder, as he called them. They are memorable in part because they are composed of fragments of things commonly so submerged in the transactions of daily life as to be beneath notice: who remembers what a bus transfer really says, or a movie ticket, or a parking stub, or the receipts from cash machines which we check out only to ...
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