Edited Schwitters Kurt (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. Virtually as new.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Originally published by Temple University Press in 1993; the text is translated from 'Kurt Schwitters, Das literarische Werk' (1973). 8vo. Wrappers. xxxiv, 254pp. 'This collection, culled from five volumes of Schwitters' writings published in Germany, introduces the total work of art that is Merz via Schwitters' words rather than images.' The complete text for the 'Ur Sonata' is included. Some soiling to the head edge, otherwise just a little rubbed and marked outwardly.…

First edition, first printing New and bright pictorial stiff wraps with excellent spine and crisp bright text. A lovely copy and gift quality.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Second Series, Volume 2 of the Morning Star Folio series published in July 1991. Large poster design (measuring 445mm x 640mm) which is folded x4 to fit inside a C5 size envelope. Printed by the Lutton Press, Edinburgh on fawn paper with brown lettering in a limited edition of 350 copies. This is copy #196 and is initialed by the editor (Alec Finlay) on the colophon. The poster contains seven poems by Kurt Schwitters, translated into English by Jerome Rothenburg and Pierre Joris. These poems were typeset by Peter Knee, Merrow, Surrey. In addition to the poems this two sided Folio contains a musical score for Country Life. The text is a translation by Christopher Fox of Dorf from Anna Blume und Ich by Kurt Schwitters (Geneva, 1988). Christopher Fox also composed the music. The MerzFolio poster is in fine condition. The printed outer envelope has a tiny crease to one corner, otherwise also in fine condition. Signed by Editor.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Second Series, Volume 2 of the Morning Star Folio series published in July 1991. Large poster design (measuring 445mm x 640mm) which is folded x4 to fit inside a C5 size envelope. Printed by the Lutton Press, Edinburgh on fawn paper with brown lettering in a limited edition of 350 copies. This is copy #198 and is initialed by the editor (Alec Finlay) on the colophon. The poster contains seven poems by Kurt Schwitters, translated into English by Jerome Rothenburg and Pierre Joris. These poems were typeset by Peter Knee, Merrow, Surrey. In addition to the poems this two sided Folio contains a musical score for Country Life. The text is a translation by Christopher Fox of Dorf from Anna Blume und Ich by Kurt Schwitters (Geneva, 1988). Christopher Fox also composed the music. The MerzFolio poster is in fine condition. The printed outer envelope has a tiny crease to one corner, otherwise also in fine condition. Signed by Editor.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Second Series, Volume 2 of the Morning Star Folio series published in July 1991. Large poster design (measuring 445mm x 640mm) which is folded x4 to fit inside a C5 size envelope. Printed by the Lutton Press, Edinburgh on fawn paper with brown lettering in a limited edition of 350 copies. This is copy #195 and is initialed by the editor (Alec Finlay) on the colophon. The poster contains seven poems by Kurt Schwitters, translated into English by Jerome Rothenburg and Pierre Joris. These poems were typeset by Peter Knee, Merrow, Surrey. In addition to the poems this two sided Folio contains a musical score for Country Life. The text is a translation by Christopher Fox of Dorf from Anna Blume und Ich by Kurt Schwitters (Geneva, 1988). Christopher Fox also composed the music. The MerzFolio poster is in fine condition. The printed outer envelope has a tiny crease to one corner, otherwise also in fine condition. Signed by Editor.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Second Series, Volume 2 of the Morning Star Folio series published in July 1991. Large poster design (measuring 445mm x 640mm) which is folded x4 to fit inside a C5 size envelope. Printed by the Lutton Press, Edinburgh on fawn paper with brown lettering in a limited edition of 350 copies. This is copy #197 and is initialed by the editor (Alec Finlay) on the colophon. The poster contains seven poems by Kurt Schwitters, translated into English by Jerome Rothenburg and Pierre Joris. These poems were typeset by Peter Knee, Merrow, Surrey. In addition to the poems this two sided Folio contains a musical score for Country Life. The text is a translation by Christopher Fox of Dorf from Anna Blume und Ich by Kurt Schwitters (Geneva, 1988). Christopher Fox also composed the music. The MerzFolio poster is in fine condition. The printed outer envelope has a tiny crease to one corner, otherwise also in fine condition. Signed by Editor.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Second Series, Volume 2 of the Morning Star Folio series published in July 1991. Large poster design (measuring 445mm x 640mm) which is folded x4 to fit inside a C5 size envelope. Printed by the Lutton Press, Edinburgh on fawn paper with brown lettering in a limited edition of 350 copies. This is copy #194 and is initialed by the editor (Alec Finlay) on the colophon. The poster contains seven poems by Kurt Schwitters, translated into English by Jerome Rothenburg and Pierre Joris. These poems were typeset by Peter Knee, Merrow, Surrey. In addition to the poems this two sided Folio contains a musical score for Country Life. The text is a translation by Christopher Fox of Dorf from Anna Blume und Ich by Kurt Schwitters (Geneva, 1988). Christopher Fox also composed the music. The MerzFolio poster is in fine condition. The printed outer envelope has a tiny crease to one corner, otherwise also in fine condition. Signed by Editor.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good + / Near Fine. 1st Edition. FORM MAGAZINE. Complete set: Issues 1-10. (Summer) 1966- (October )1969.The most significant British magazine of the 60s concentrating on pure abstraction and through this art theory, architecture, avant-garde magazines et al. Interest in FORM itself has grown in recent years: while studying for his Ph.D. the Portuguese architect Joaquim Moreno made a particular study of the magazine, contending that it is essentially a magazine about little magazines of the avant-garde. Moreno was part of the research group that produced 'Clip Stamp Fold' (M + M books, Princeton, 2011), which features interviews with Bann and Steadman. Issues often include a Great Little Magazines section. Each issue is about 9.5 inches square, illustrated, with 32pp (apart from one issue with 36pp). Number 1: Contents includes Film as Pure form by Theo Van Doesburg (first translation of 1929 essay), The Activity of Structuralism by Roland Barthes, Experimental Aesthetics by Carlyn Cumming, essay on Fernand Leger, Great Little Magazines No.1 : Secession with work by William Carlos Williams, Hans Arp Yvor Winters / Number 2: Contents includes Le Parc and The Group Problem by Frank Popper; A Little Night Music by Charles Tomlinson; Articles by Gillo Dorfles; Poem by Charles Tomlinson; William Carlos Williams on Emanuel Romano. Great Little Magazines No.2: Blues with work by Gertrude Stein, Sidney Hunt, Parker Tyler, Kenneth Rexroth, Charles Henri Ford./ Number 3: Contents includes Poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ernst Jandl, Paul de Vree, Kenneth Robinson. Articles on and by Charles Biederman and 'The Electrical -Mechanical Spectacle' by El Lissitzky. Great Little Magazines No 3: 'G' with work by Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Mies van der Rohe, Miklos Bandi./ Number 4: Contents includes: Brighton Concrete Poetry Exhibition , notes, map & full review (exhibition organised by Form's editors), Black Mountain College, Albers 'Graphic Tectonics', 'What is Kentetism' ? Two essays by Charles Biederman, Poems by Anselm Hollo. Review of Mecano magazine in Great Little Magazines No.4 (therefore discussion of Van Doesburg) - which includes translation of Van Doesburg text. / Number 5: Contains Hans Jaffes - De Stijl and Architecture, features on Bernard Lassus and Raul Hausmann, and in the Black Mountain Series John A. Rice, George Zabriskie and designs for college buildings by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Great Little Magazines No.5 'RAY' with work by Sidney Hunt, I. K. Bonset ( Theo Van Doesburg) and Kurt Schwitters./ Number 6: The contents include essays on Russian unofficial art, and on the work of Laszlo Moholy Nagy; John Evarts and Jean Charlot writing on Black Mountain; and poems by David Chaloner. Great Little Magazines No.6 'De Stijl' (Part 1). / Number 7: March / 1968. Contents include Kinetic Art in Czechoslovakia, Cinema and Semiology, by Peter Wollen, new American Photography, Abraham Moles on Vasarely. Airfields by Simon Cutts. Great Little Magazines No.6 'De Stijl' (author index part 2). / Number 8: The contents include Russian Exhibitions 1904 to 1922, Xanti Schawinskys - Spectodrama, and a feature on Pierre Albert-Birot with Barbara Wrights translations from - Grabinoulor. Great Little Magazines No.7 'SIC' with work by Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Albert-Birot. / Number 9: Contents includes articles by Hans Richter, Joost Baljeu, H. H. Stuckenschmidt. 'Notes on Theatre at Black Mountain College (1948-1952)' by Mark Hedden. 'Theo van Doesburg is of Today' by Maurice Agis and Peter Jones. Great Little Magazines section No 8: 'Kulchur' with work by Robert Indiana./ Number 10: The Aesthetic of Ian Hamilton Finlay by Simon Cutts. Art in Crisis by Charles Biederman, Structuralism & Literary Criticism by Gerard Genette. Great Little Magazines : LEF by Richard Sherwood & articles from LEF by Brik, Arvatov, Mayokovsky. Together with printed letter from the editor, Philip Steadman, sent to contributors when the magazine finished & flier for Form subs.…

First edition Printed on pink paper. With several photographic illustrations throughout. First edition Printed on pink paper. In publisher's printed gray wrappers, typographic composition by Schwitters. 3348 p. [=16 p.]. The fourth number of Kurt Schwitter's illustrated journal, the magazine of the Dada in Hannover. The 21 numbers of Merz was published between 1923 and 1932. The present 4th number, with the subtitle "Banalitäten", appeared in July 1923. This issue contains nine illustrations, among them by Picasso (Sacipos), Hans Arp, László Moholy-Nagy, Kurt Schwitters, Arthur Segall, Theo van Doesburg, and texts by Schwitters, Tzara, Bonset (d. i. Theo van Doesburg), Arp and others. . Lower corner bumped. Trace of folding. Scratches on the front panel around letter "E" from the title. Stain to upper left corner of front cover and at the center of the rear panel. Light stain to lower edge of two leaves (pp. 3536 and 4546). Otherwise clean. Overall in very good condition. In publisher's printed gray wrappers, typographic composition by Schwitters. With several photographic illustrations throughout. (illustrator).…