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
Schwitters fled to the UK from Germany in 1937 after being branded a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2018
I’ve written essays comparing games to the work of artist Kurt Schwitters and poet Kenneth Rexroth, and even I can’t muster this level of vacuous self-importance on the subject.
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2014
Each nearly identical piece is printed to resemble a bureaucratic form filled in with nonsensical script and has affixed to it a canceled postage stamp commemorating the collagist Kurt Schwitters.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2014
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