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Schwitters desscribes an imaginary dialogue between himself and his alter ego because "one is on one's own so much...!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Auction catalog. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibition curated by Dietrich Mahlow. The cover is perforated such that the word "collage" is formed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by Aida Audeh and Stephen C. Foster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Auction catalogue. Included an outstanding Dada collage by Hausmann, "Dada -- Cino" (1920); it was inscribed to Kurt Schwitters and was extensively documented. An exquisite corpse by Yves Tanguy, Jeanette Breton and Andre Breton was offered for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Curated by Judi Freedman with special essay by John C. Welchman, the book gives an over-view of the artists from 1915 through 1940 who "included words, letters and numbers in their works and in so doing altered perceptions of what a painting or an art object could and should be." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This 1965 reprint of the book first published in 1958 includes a Dada lexicon and chronology from 1914 to 1925 of events, artists and publications. Willy Verkauf aka Andre Verlon -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Auction catalog. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a reprint of Der Merz Nr.24, Hannover 1932. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a compendium of poems, brief autobiographical essays, and Dada writings by Schwitters that were selected by Christina Weiss and Karl Riha. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This well illustrated book consists of a collection of essays by Schwitters, his artistic friends, and critics about his life and work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a short play translated from the German "Kommernisspiele - Ein dramatischer Entwurf," into English with experimental typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hausmann expressed happines that questions from Bory have been answered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hausmannn mentions that the typography in Der Dada 1 cover and the cover of Der Dada 2 is his design.He alos discusses Der Dada, PIN and the Story of PIN. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Many of Schwitters's fairy tales were discovered after his death in England in 1948. many were in draft form. "Despite their roughness and incompleteness, they are incisive if not disturbing reflections of his life and times, and the incorporate radical notions of the fairy tale as an art form... Schwitter's innovations were based on his theory of Merz." Jack Zipes contributes an introductory essay "Kurt Schwitters, Politics, and the Merz Fairy Tale" and Irvine Peacock is the book illustrator. These fairy tales also are published in Schwitters "Das literarische Werk," a series held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this catalogue, there is a photographic reproduction and documentation of Lissitzky's "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge." The image size of ~18 x ~22 inches is identical to the poster held by the Sackner Archive. However, there are differences in the cluster of forms in the upper right corner. The authenticity was documented by Eugene Kotvin, Curator of Prints, Russian Museum, Leningrad. Kotvin noted that there were two editions of the print with two lithographic matrices produced in Unovis Workshop owing to the large numbers required. This explains the typographical differences among posters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.