Kurt Schwitters
Space, Image, Exile
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Withdrawal from Appearance
A Composition of Fragments
Boundaries into Horizons
1 Radiating Space
Space and Composition in the New Typography
Paintings That Move Themselves
The Transparent Body
The Limits of Merz and Mondrian
Performing a Theory of Spatial Formation
2 The Wandering Merzbau
Off the Pedestal and Out of the Frame
A Photograph of Erotic Misery
Form Exceeds Function
Reflection and Radiation
The Merzbau in Exile
3 For the Hand
The Skin of a Very Small Sculpture
Rebuilding on Bones and Ruins
Resisting Identity
A Sculpture Is a Painted Stone
4 The Image in Exile
Northern Lights
A Recording Device of the Highest Sensitivity
The Merzbau into Painting
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Association of American Publishers: PROSE Book Award
Honorable Mention
Dedalus Foundation: Robert Motherwell Book Award
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