Kurt Schwitters 1985 1st Hardcover Edition Elderfield for Museum of Modern Art

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Kurt Schwitters 1985 First Hardcover Edition. John Elderfield for Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art and Thames and Hudson, 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket, 424 pages. 11 x 9 inches. 4 lbs. Good condition; dust jacket with light staining and tares. Owner’s name in flyleaf. See images.  Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Grey cloth, thick quarto. Original gray cloth with gilt emblem on cover, gilt lettering on spine, in original pictorial dust jacket, black lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Frontispiece poster reproduction of invitation to MERZ lecture evening. Gray ruling on title page. Illustrated with 356 reproductions of artwork, thirty-two of them in color.
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is an artist full of paradoxes, He was a Hannover bourgeois, conventionally trained, who could and did paint academic portraits and landscapes all his life; and he was one of the most original spirits of the twentieth century. Poet as well as painter, associate of both Dadaists and Constructivists, he is most famous for his collages and assemblages of unregarded and worthless materials, whose compelling rightness and beauty far transcends the anti-art rebellion of the First World War years."(Publisher).
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