Activity – Gwendolen Webster

Gwendolen Webster deposited A Perfect Package – Rethinking Kurt Schwitters’ Merz barn in the group German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago

John Elderfield’s 1985 study of Kurt Schwitters more than once relates his work to the Picturesque tradition, likening him to those early Picturesque travellers who surveyed landscape through city eyes. Taking Elderfield’s idea as a starting -point, this essay contests the widely held claim that Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn was conceived as a…[Read more]
Gwendolen Webster deposited A Perfect Package – Rethinking Kurt Schwitters’ Merz barn on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago

John Elderfield’s 1985 study of Kurt Schwitters more than once relates his work to the Picturesque tradition, likening him to those early Picturesque travellers who surveyed landscape through city eyes. Taking Elderfield’s idea as a starting -point, this essay contests the widely held claim that Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn was conceived as a…[Read more]

Gwendolen Webster