The elusive and yet irrepressible modernist self: formulating a theory of self-reflexivity in Kurt Schwitters' Hanover Merzbau through the vitalist philosphies of Georg Simmel and Henri Bergson

Kurt Schwitters decisively established that Dada was indeed more a state of mind than a collection of creeds. Spurned by Berlin Dada, he was compelled to construct for himself an alternative Dada existence, and this he accomplished in the one-man movement he christened "Merz". Hundreds of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reynaga, Tahia Thaddeus
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2004
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11382/