| PPPPPP: Poems, Performance, Pieces, Proses, Plays, Poetics Contributor(s): Schwitters, Kurt (Author), Rothenberg, Jerome (Translator), Joris, Pierre (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1878972359 ISBN-13: 9781878972354 Publisher: Exact Change OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2010 Annotation: A landmark anthology of German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters's writings, translated by Jerry Rothenberg and Pierre Joris. The prose and poetry in this volume embrace and undo every genre, prefiguring sound, concrete and language poetry, and laying the groundwork for performance art. Includes the score for Schwitters's "Ur Sonata, " perhaps the most famous work of sound poetry, a recording of which has recently been made available on several CDs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Art | History - General - Art | Individual Artists - General |
| Dewey: 831.912 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8" (0.90 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The now classic compilation of writings by Kurt Schwitters, Dada pioneer and the inventor of Merz Kurt Schwitters' stated goal was to erase the boundaries between the arts. This collection, culled from the five-volume German edition of Schwitters' writings, introduces the total work of art that is Merz through Schwitters' words. Included is the complete text for the Ursonate, Schwitters' legendary and lengthy epic of sound poetry, which, as poets, editors and translators Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris comment, is to sound poetry what Joyce's Ulysses is to the twentieth-century novel. |