{"product_id":"myself-and-my-aims-9780226129396","title":"Myself and My Aims","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This indispensable collection follows Schwitters' swiftly changing thought on a diverse range of subjects from architecture and painting to graphic art and poetry. In each case Schwitters delivers his canny diagnosis with rigor, humor, and unflinching belligerence. No figure was able to reconcile Dadaist nihilism with constructivist optimism quite like Schwitters, and his striking insights about the hollow metaphysics of consumer society will not fail to resonate with anyone torn between the positions of critique and complicity today.\"--Devin Fore, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e An Introduction to Merz-Thought\u003cbr\u003e A Note to the Reader\u003cbr\u003e 1          The Problem of Abstract Art. First Attempt (June–August 1910)\u003cbr\u003e 2          Problem of Pure Painting. 2nd Attempt. 1. Beginning (before December 1910)\u003cbr\u003e 3          Materials for My Work on the Problem of Pure Painting. 3rd Attempt (November 1910)\u003cbr\u003e 4          2nd Beginning to the Problem of Pure Painting. 2nd Attempt (December 1910–January 1911)\u003cbr\u003e 5          Abstract Painting. 1918. A. (February 1918)\u003cbr\u003e 6          Merz-Painting (July\/November 1919)\u003cbr\u003e 7          A Solid Article: A Wienerization in Sturm (August 1919)\u003cbr\u003e 8          The Merz-Theater \/ To All the Theaters of the World (1919)\u003cbr\u003e 9          Artists’ Right to Self-Determination (1919)\u003cbr\u003e 10        Thou Me, I Thee, We Mine (and Sun Infinity Thin Out the Stars) (December 1919)\u003cbr\u003e 11        Nothing Kills Quicker Than Ridicule (February 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 12        Berliner Börsenkukukunst (February 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 13        Tran Number 7. General Amnesty for My Hannoverian Critics in the Style of Merz (April 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 14        What Art Is: A Guide for Great Critics (April 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 15        Statement (April 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 16        [I divide my poetry into three types . . .] (April 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 17        Hannover (June 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 18        Extension (June 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 19        Tran Number 11. German Popular Criticism, the Criticism of Reconstruction (August 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 20        Tran No. 12. Criticism as Artwork (September 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 21        Tran Number 13. The Private Scouring Cloth: Contribution to a Phenomenology of Critical Enjoyment (October 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 22        Tran No. 14. Dr. Frog Starves the Intellect (October 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 23        Tran Number 16. Life on Blind Feet (December 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 24        Kurt Schwitters (1920)\u003cbr\u003e 25        Tran Number 17. The Fettered Paul Madsack (December 1920)\u003cbr\u003e 26        MERZ (Written for the \u003ci\u003eArarat\u003c\/i\u003e, 19 December 1920) (January 1921)\u003cbr\u003e 27        Tran No. 15. The Average Phenomenon with Clear Eyes (January 1921)\u003cbr\u003e 28        Why I Am Dissatisfied with Oil Painting (January 1921) Translated from Hungarian by John Batki 29        Tran 18 (February 1921)\u003cbr\u003e 30        Evening Reading (ca. February 1921)\u003cbr\u003e 31        My Views on the Value of Criticism (for the \u003ci\u003eArarat\u003c\/i\u003e) (May 1921)\u003cbr\u003e 32        Cleanliness (for People Who Don’t Know It Yet) (May 1921)\u003cbr\u003e 33        Tran 19 (August 1921)\u003cbr\u003e 34        Castle and Cathedral with Courtyard Fountain (1922)\u003cbr\u003e 35        Tran 21. Speech at the Grave of Leo Rein (in the \u003ci\u003eBerliner Börsenzeitung\u003c\/i\u003e 547 on 27 November 1921) (January 1922)\u003cbr\u003e 36        Tragedy. Tran No. 22, against Dr. Weygandt, PhD and MD (May 1922)\u003cbr\u003e 37        i (A Manifesto) (May 1922)\u003cbr\u003e 38        Tran No. 26 (1922)\u003cbr\u003e 39        Tran 23 (September 1922)\u003cbr\u003e 40        Introduction to \u003ci\u003eTran No. 30: Auguste Bolte\u003c\/i\u003e (1923)\u003cbr\u003e 41        The Self-Overcoming of Dada (January 1923) Translated from Dutch by Michael White 42        [Introduction to \u003ci\u003eMerz 1. Holland Dada\u003c\/i\u003e] (January 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 43        Dadaism in Holland (January 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 44        [Editorial note to Vilmos Huszár, \u003ci\u003eMechanische Dansfiguur\u003c\/i\u003e] (January 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 45        Style (ca. January–April 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 46        i (April 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 47        WAR (April 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 48        War (April 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 49        Manifesto Proletarian Art (April 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 50        From the World: “MERZ” (April–June 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 51        Banalities (3) (July 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 52        dada complet. 1 (July 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 53        Banalities (4) \/ [Tristan Tzara] (July 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 54        DADA NEWS (July 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 55        WATCH YOUR STEP! (October 1923)\u003cbr\u003e 56        Merz (1924)\u003cbr\u003e 57        i (January 1924)\u003cbr\u003e 58        DADA COMPLET No. 2. \/ TRAN 50 (January 1924)\u003cbr\u003e 59        Dadaists (January 1924)\u003cbr\u003e 60        [Advertisement for \u003ci\u003eMerz 8\/9. Nasci\u003c\/i\u003e] (January 1924)\u003cbr\u003e 61        Tran 35. Dada Is a Hypothesis (March 1924)\u003cbr\u003e 62        Rigorous Poetry (June 1924)\u003cbr\u003e 63        Dadaism (1924) Translated from Polish by Kamila Kuc 64        National Feeling (August 1924)\u003cbr\u003e 65        The Westheim Threat, Again (December 1924)\u003cbr\u003e 66        National Art (1925)\u003cbr\u003e 67        [What Is Madness?] (ca. mid-1920s)\u003cbr\u003e 68        Theses on Typography (1925)\u003cbr\u003e 69        [The Standard Merz Stage] (1925)\u003cbr\u003e 70        STANDARD MERZ STAGE (July 1925)\u003cbr\u003e 71        Religion or Socialism (July 1925)\u003cbr\u003e 72        STANDARD MERZ STAGE (Some Practical Suggestions.) (July 1925)\u003cbr\u003e 73        The ABC of the Standard Merz Stage (July 1925)\u003cbr\u003e 74        Language (November 1925)\u003cbr\u003e 75        Standard Stage by Kurt Schwitters (December 1925)\u003cbr\u003e 76        Gut Garkau (ca. late 1925\/early 1926)\u003cbr\u003e 77        FANTASTIC THOUGHTS (ca. 1926)\u003cbr\u003e 78        Art and the Times (March 1926)\u003cbr\u003e 79        The New Architecture in Germany (March 1926)\u003cbr\u003e 80        Life’s Path (May 1926)\u003cbr\u003e 81        Facts from My Life (June 1926)\u003cbr\u003e 82        Rhythm in the Work of Art (October 1926)\u003cbr\u003e 83        Merz-Book (October 1926)\u003cbr\u003e 84        Standard Stage (October 1926)\u003cbr\u003e 85        My Merz and My Monster Merz: Model Marketplace at Sturm (October 1926)\u003cbr\u003e 86        Call It Coincidence (ca. mid-1920s)\u003cbr\u003e 87        The Artist and His Titles (1926)\u003cbr\u003e 88        Merz 20. Kurt Schwitters Catalogue (1927)\u003cbr\u003e 89        [Ella Bergmann-Michel] (March 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 90        [Letter to Wassily Kandinsky] (April 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 91        Elementary Knowledge in Painting (ca. 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 92        Style or Form-Creation (1927)\u003cbr\u003e 93        typography and orthography: lowercase (ca. 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 94        Sensation (July 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 95        Front against \u003ci\u003eFronta\u003c\/i\u003e: Afterword to the Foreword of\u003ci\u003e Fronta\u003c\/i\u003e (July–August 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 96        Proposals for a Systematic Typeface (August–September 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 97        Sense of Duty (September 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 98        Stuttgart, \u003ci\u003eThe Home\u003c\/i\u003e—Werkbund Exhibition (October 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 99        My Sonata in Ur-Sounds (November 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 100      Kitsch and Dilettantism (December 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 101      Good or Bad Fortune (December 1927)\u003cbr\u003e 102      On Greek Temples (April 1928)\u003cbr\u003e 103      Appearance (ca. spring 1928)\u003cbr\u003e 104      Third Prague Letter (May 1928)\u003cbr\u003e 105      The New Architecture in Celle: The Architect Otto Haesler (August 1928)\u003cbr\u003e 106      Form-Creating Typography (September 1928)\u003cbr\u003e 107      Modern Advertising (October 1928)\u003cbr\u003e 108      Werkbund Congress in Munich, 1928 (November 1928)\u003cbr\u003e 109      Stories That Have Run Their Course (November 1928)\u003cbr\u003e 110      Revue by Three Reviewed (December 1928)\u003cbr\u003e 111      [Review of Hans Hildebrandt, \u003ci\u003eWoman as Artist\u003c\/i\u003e] (December 1928)\u003cbr\u003e 112      Hannover and the Abstract Room by Lissitzky (April 1929)\u003cbr\u003e 113      About Me by Myself (May 1929) Originally published in English, translator unknown 114      A Layman’s Judgment of New Architecture (June 1929)\u003cbr\u003e 115      The Style of the Age and the Dammerstock Housing Estate (September 1929)\u003cbr\u003e 116      Facts from My Life (December 1929)\u003cbr\u003e 117      [The art of today is a strange thing . . .] (March 1930) Translated from French by Eva Morawietz 118      the ring neue werbegestalter (1930)\u003cbr\u003e 119      Advertising Design (1930)\u003cbr\u003e 120      Form-Creation in Typography (February and April 1930)\u003cbr\u003e 121      Painting (ca. late 1920s\/early 1930s)\u003cbr\u003e 122      On the Uniform Design of Print Materials (1930)\u003cbr\u003e 123      Kurt Schwitters (1930)\u003cbr\u003e 124      [The Big E is finished . . .] (ca. 1930–33)\u003cbr\u003e 125      Myself and My Aims (1931)\u003cbr\u003e 126      [We know the Doesburg of “Stijl” . . .] (June 1931\/January 1932)\u003cbr\u003e 127      merz-paintings (1932) Translated from French by Eva Morawietz 128      [Statement about the \u003ci\u003eMerzbau\u003c\/i\u003e] (1933) Translated from French by Eva Morawietz 129      [Excerpts from letters to Susanna Freudenthal-Lutter about the \u003ci\u003eMerzbau\u003c\/i\u003e] (February and March 1935)\u003cbr\u003e 130      [Excerpt from a letter to Susanna Freudenthal-Lutter about landscape painting] (July 1935)\u003cbr\u003e 131      The Work of Art (ca. 1937–40)\u003cbr\u003e 132      Impressionism\/Expressionism (ca. 1937–40)\u003cbr\u003e 133      The Tin Palm Tree (July 1937)\u003cbr\u003e 134      [I once saw a famous singer in a film . . .] (December 1937)\u003cbr\u003e 135      [Anyone who wants to write about people . . .] (December 1937)\u003cbr\u003e 136      Sheet 1. For My New Studio (April 1938)\u003cbr\u003e 137      Sheet 2 (April 1938)\u003cbr\u003e 138      Merz (April 1938)\u003cbr\u003e 139      [I first saw the light of the world in the year 1887 . . .] (June 1938)\u003cbr\u003e 140      [Once we realize that, basically, everything is futile . . .] (after 16 December 1939)\u003cbr\u003e 141      Truth (ca. 1930s)\u003cbr\u003e 142      Art (January 1940)\u003cbr\u003e 143      Mixing of Artistic Genres (ca. 1940)\u003cbr\u003e 144      Theory in Painting (January 1940)\u003cbr\u003e 145      Painting (Pure Painting) (October 1940)\u003cbr\u003e 146      [The Portrait] (October 1940)\u003cbr\u003e 147      European Art of the 20th Century (between 17 July 1940 and 22 November 1941)\u003cbr\u003e 148      [Statement declining membership in the Freier Deutscher Kulturbund] (after November 1941)\u003cbr\u003e 149      Abstract Art (after November 1941) Original in English 150      Material and Aims (after November 1941) Original in English 151      [Kurt Schwitters] (after November 1941) Original in English 152      The Origin of Merz (after November 1941)\u003cbr\u003e 153      [Kurt Schwitters] (after November 1941) Original in English 154      [Renaissance] (after 30 October 1945)\u003cbr\u003e 155      [Answers to a questionnaire for \u003ci\u003eLa savoir vivre\u003c\/i\u003e] (1946) Translated from French by Eva Morawietz 156      Key for Reading Sound Poems (September 1946) Original in English 157      My Art and My Life (ca. 1946–47) Original in English\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083415724375,"sku":"9780226129396","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226129396.jpg?v=1725548866","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/myself-and-my-aims-9780226129396","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}