Schwitters
Americannoun
noun
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The 16-minute dance, the longest of the show, was set to an imaginative mix of taped selections ranging from George Gershwin to Kurt Schwitters, the avant-garde artist who also composed sound poetry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Artists included in this show at the Parker include figures such as Wallace Berman, Kurt Schwitters, Roy De Forest and Franklin Williams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019
Kurt Schwitters, who influenced artists like Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley and Sir Peter Blake, worked in the Merz Barn in Elterwater in the 1940s.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2018
At the New Museum his beautifully notated Frankensteinian collages of butterfly-wing patterns show an aesthetic intelligence equal to Kurt Schwitters, Wallace Berman, and Rauschenberg.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2016
Volumes and exhibitions have already been devoted to various aspects of the Berman collection, including Cuban movie posters, the German collage artist Kurt Schwitters and Japanese avant-garde design.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2015
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