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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| Format: | Thesis (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11382/ |