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...confecting icons of junk under the eye of strict formal abstraction. One would expect the number of small pieces in this show to be, in the end, fatiguing; but it is not, thanks to Schwitters' dedication to reinventing a surface with each collage. His favorite matrix was the grid of cubism, a shallow, divided skin on which the scraps of paper and little objects surface and vanish, overlapping like leaves on a forest floor. He called them all "Merz" constructions: the name was a fragment of a printed phrase advertising the Kommerz-und Privat-Bank, but it became generic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Urban Poet | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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