He worked in many mediums including painting, poetry, installation art, sculpture, graphic design and typography. Mp3 transmedia artist lynn book performed kurt schwitters ursonate 1922 in the charlotte. Schwitterss use of fragments reflects a society shattered by world war i. He had frequent contact with local artists there, such as thijs rinsema. Some words to kurt schwitters ursonate, by jaap blonk kurt schwitters was born in hannover in 1887. Kurt schwitters was an important part of the programme. He worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, collage, sculpture, typography and what came to be known as installation art. Schwitters is recognized for his unique contribution to twentiethcentury art and literature. Associated with the dada movement, painter, poet, and mixedmedia artist kurt schwitters is best known for his collage and assemblage works in which he transformed appropriated imagery and text from print media into dynamic and layered compositions.
Ursonate 192232 ursonate score mp3 versions of the ursonate in ubuweb sound audio works audio works of kurt schwitters in ubuweb sound kurt schwitters is generally acknowledged as the twentieth centurys greatest master of collage. Wiki for collaborative studies of arts, media and humanities. You yourself will certainly feel the rhythm, slack or strong, high or low, taut or loose. Kurt schwitters ursonate 19221932 performed by jaap blonk. Schwitters authenticated the wider than the car, and i could look number of the most interesting artists to performance and the first and only full directly down from my window, thousands cross the boundaries ofrecognized media recording of the ursonate by kurt of meters down to the bottom of the valley or to fuse the boundaries of art with media schwitters himself finally became below. The word dada is repeated in bold red letters in various orientations. Kurt schwitters and katherine dreier in german life and letters 1999, vol.
Kurt schwitters, the lake poet by harriet staff poetry. They sold the business in 1898, using the money to buy five properties in hanover which they rented out, allowing the family to live off the income for the rest of schwitters. In 1894 ging schwitters naar het realgymnasium i in hannover. Schwitters, kurt 18871948 german artist, poet, essayist, dramatist, novelist, and shortstory writer. Ursonate oxford academic journals oxford university press. Were excited to see that the tate is hosting a retrospective of kurt schwitterss late work. Kurt schwitters ursonate by jack ox installation shot of the fourth movement of the ursonate, photographed at the contemporary art center in new orleans, 2004.
Exhibition catalogue, in the beginning was merz from kurt schwitters to the present day, sprengel museum hannover, hatje cantz, ostfildern, 2000. Kurt schwitters is most commonly associated with the dada movement, but also was an integral participant in the constructivist and surrealist movements. This essay centers on a rare and unknown version of the revolutionary sound poem, the ursonate, which the german avantgarde artist kurt schwitters composed between 1922 and 1932. Refused by the berlin dadaists, he started a oneman dada group in hannover called merz. The wikipedia article on kurt schwitters includes a paragraph on ursonate. Lynn book performing kurt schwitters ursonate ursonate performance, wake forest university, winstonsalem, north carolina, november 5, 20.
Kurt hermann eduard karl julius schwitters 20 june 1887 8 january 1948 was a german artist who was born in hanover, germany schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. Josef helfenstein is director of the menil collection. Just as collage is essentially the medium of irony, so schwitters life is characterized by paradox and enigma. The late work, 19371948, marlborough fine art, 1981.
It was destroyed in a british air raid in october 1943 in hannover. The typeface was created from scratch and inspired by the merz art schwitters created, hence the name, merzy. In 1923, kurt schwitters and theo van doesburg embarked on a tour of hollandtheir socalled dada campaignto introduce local artists to dada through a series of evening lectures and performances. Kurt schwitters ursonate, written between 1922 and 1932 was the greatest sound poem of the 20th century. Kurt hermann eduard karl julius schwitters 20 june 1887 8 january 1948 was a german painter. This project is inspired by kurt schwitters sound work ursonate. Pdf some words to kurt schwitters ursonate jaap blonk. Kurt schwitters was born herman edward karl julius schwitters on june 20, 1887, in hannover. Although i am not an expert on this situation, i would like to note that thijs rinsema and kurt schwitters influenced. Schwitters often emphasized the importance of structure.
These are the first lines of the kurt schwitters ursonate, or sonata in primal sounds. Kurt schwitters reads an extract from ursonate by the 1930s, schwitters, along with many other artists including ernst and arp, was considered degenerate by the nazis and he fled germany. This is from a painted interpretation of kurt schwitters sound poem the ursonate written 192232. His parents were proprietors of a ladies clothes shop. Below the fold, you can find 9 versions of it by sound artists from around the world.
A short excerpt from kurt schwitters sound poem, ursonate. Kurt schwitters ursonate complete poem with verses. He attended the kunstgewerbeschule in hannover from 1908 to 1909 and from 1909 to 1914 studied at the kunstakademie dresden. In 1937 schwitters had to flee the nazis, via norway to england, where he died in 1948, sixty years of age. Out of parsimony i took whatever i found because we were now an impoverished country, he wrote in 1919. Kurt schwitters 18871948 was a painter, sculptor, designer and writer and worked in several genres and media, including dada, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. Schwitters took the poems first line from the opening of a poster poem by the dadaist raoul hausmann and, over a tenyear period, expanded it and developed different notations. Ursonate this song is by kurt schwitters and appears on the album ursonate 1932. Lozenge composition with yellow, black, blue, red, and gray. Gwendolen webster is an independent scholar and expert on schwitters. Lockdown sleep music 247, sleep therapy, sleep meditation, calm music, insomnia, study, spa, relax body mind zone 3,225 watching live now. Ursonate, which the german avantgarde artist kurt schwitters.
The sonata consists of four movements, of an overture and a finale, and seventhly, of a cadenza in the fourth movement. Between wozzeck, t he head and the l oad and your staging of kurt schwitterss ursonate, youve been working on performances around the great war for nearly four years. For greatest possible comfort and full functionality you should use one of the recommended browsers. Leah dickerman is curator in the department of painting and sculpture at the museum of modern art, new york. Ill kurt schwitters, ursonate, introduction there is a development and a connection in how the sounds are put together, and the sonata can be easily understood both as a text and as a musical piece. Isabel schulz is the executive director of the kurt and ernst schwitters collection and the curator of the kurt schwitters archive at the sprengel museum in hannover.
Kurt schwitters, eberhard blum ursonate 1992, cd discogs. When his son ernst fled to oslo in 1936, kurt schwitters followed him only a few days later, never to return to his native germany where, since 1933, he had been publicly derided as a degenerate artist. He studied at the applied arts school, the art academy and the institute of technology. This paper notes the importance of kurt schwitterss merz project to the modernist politics and poetics of exile of the 20th century. Schwitters studied at the dresden academy of art with otto dix and george grosz, and after showing in berlin in 1918 was introduced to dadaists. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dada, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to.
View 102 dada and surrealism from art 102 at emory university. He is most famous for his collages, called merz pictures. Charlotte and philip hanes art gallery 3,335 views. After serving as a draftsman in the military in 1917, schwitters experimented with cubist and expressionist styles. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestoes, art theory, theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its antiwar politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through antiart cultural works. Since 1932, kurt schwitters had been spending his summer months in norway, where nature afforded him the much needed rest and recuperation in those times of extreme political unrest. The life and world of al capone, putnams, 1971, omite mencionar completamente esta. Kurt schwitters, jaap blonk ursonate 192 kbps, file.
This volume, the fourth in the complete works of kurt schwitters, offers the first complete and annotated edition of merz, the avantgarde journal for multimedia. The exhibition, which features more than 180 works, traces schwitters journey in britain from an internment camp on the isle of man during the second world war to the london art scene to the lake district where he began work on his nowfamous merz barn until his death in 1948. Cantonate 2009 sound file generated with processing i am interested in finding unusual relationship between language and sound. For schwitters, this merz label became an ironic brand name for a practice that aimed to collapse consumer and media culture into a total work of art. It comprises an extensive first movement, a largo passage, a scherzo and trio, and a virtuoso finale and cadenza. In revolving, the cord, hoops, wire mesh, and small objects tacked to the painterly canvas replace depicted lines and forms.
He moved to britain, where he spent the duration of the war at internment camps in scotland and the isle of man. Kurt schwitters ursonate by jack ox abstract comics. Therefore the design of media art net will not display correctly. Mp3 introduction to lynn books performance by amy catanzano 8. Introduction and rondo largo scherzo trio scherzo presto denoument.
The first movement is a rondo with four main themes, designated as such in the text of the sonata. Some words to kurt schwitters ursonate, by jaap blonk. Schwitters was primarily known for his dadaist collages and visual art works, but i feel that the ursonate is the most important and. Kurt schwitters, valencia, ivam centre julio gon zalez, 1995.
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