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Chapters: Hermann Zapf, Jan Tschichold, Kurt Schwitters, Jan Balet, Friedrich Kurt Fiedler, Jamiri, Christoph Meckel, Peter Behrens, Erik Spiekermann, Gerd Arntz, Otl Aicher, Wolfgang Weingart, Julia Hasting, Peter Zizka, Peter Seitz, Helmuth Ellgaard, Fons Hickmann, Thomas Manss, Lucian Bernhard, Frank Jonen, Henri Kay Henrion, Anton Stankowski, Otto Hermann Werner Hadank, Cioma Schönhaus, Stefan Guzy, Louis Oppenheim, Marian Kretschmer, Hans Bohn, Martin Kornmesser, Hans Schweitzer, Rudolf Grüttner, Wilhelm Ripe, Ougrapo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 134. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures. Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Kurt Schwitters was born on 20 June 1887, at No.2 Rumannstraße , Hanover, the only child of Edward Schwitters and his wife Henriette (née Beckemeyer). His parents were proprietors of a ladies' clothes shop. They sold the business in 1898, using the money to buy five properties in Hanover which they rented out, allowing the family to live off the income for the rest of Schwitter's life in Germany. In 1901 the family moved to Waldstraße (later Waldhausenstraße) 5, future site of the Merzbau. The same year, Schwitters suffered his first epileptic seizure, a condition that would exempt him from military service in World War I until the last stages of the conflict, when conscription began to be applied to a far wider section of the population. After studying art at the Dresd...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17121 ... Read more

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The good ship Shredder embarks upon its fourth voyage into uncharted waters with another rich trove: specially designed portfolios by Martin Wilner and Arne Svenson; Lawrence Weschler on the surfeit of Christlike imagery in contemporary art; a previously unpublished sketchbook by Joan Mitchell; Kurt Schwitters works on paper including early letterhead designs and a reproduction of a rare "Ursonate" print; a portfolio of Valentine Hugo's quirky surrealism; Fred Mann's interview with English tenor John Mark Ainsley; National Book Award winner Mark Doty's meditation on Walt Whitman's tomb; Rochelle Gurstein's rediscovery of the mysterious Venus de' Medici; the kinky side of Swiss Renaissance master Urs Graf's drawings; Luise Kruger's folksy fabric works; a new Shredder-only story by Allan Gurganus; Wilson Bentley's microscopic photographs of snowflakes; Frances Richard on Duchamp and Gordon Matta-Clark; a large selection of R. Crumb's little-known portrait spools; and a CD of accordionist Guy Klucevsek's early work. ... Read more