{"title":"Kurt Schwitters","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"three-stories-by-kurt-schwitters","title":"Three Stories: Kurt Schwitters","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Kurt Schwitters\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJasia Reichardt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe German-born artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is best known for his \"psychological collages\" and his large-scale sculptures. He also experimented with sound art, typography, and architecture and wrote poetry and prose. This volume presents three short stories and a poem by Schwitters, all published here in English for the first time. Included with them is an appreciation of Schwitters by his friend, the surrealist pioneer E.L.T. Mesens, commissioned for ARTnews in 1958 and unavailable since then, and a previously unpublished response by the artist's son Ernst Schwitters. Jasia Reichardt's introduction places these remarkable documents in the context of Schwitters's life and career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e32 pages \u003cbr\u003eTate Publishing, 2011\u003cbr\u003e5.4 x 0.4 x 7.9 inches \u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781854379092\u003cbr\u003eArtist Monograph, Surrealism, Short Stories, Poetry \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":263520886,"sku":"9781854379092","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Three-Stories_Kurt-Schwitters.jpg?v=1592510202"},{"product_id":"tales-of-the-german-imagination","title":"Tales of the German Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by Peter Wortsman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction, it includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity \u003cem\u003eThe Sandman\u003c\/em\u003e; Chamisso's influential black masterpiece \u003cem\u003ePeter Schlemiel\u003c\/em\u003e, where a man barters his own shadow; Kafka's chilling, disturbing satire \u003cem\u003eIn the Penal Colony\u003c\/em\u003e; the Dadaist surrealism of Kurt Schwitters' \u003cem\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/em\u003e; and Bachmann's modern fairy tale \u003cem\u003eThe Secrets of the Princess of Kagran\u003c\/em\u003e. Macabre, dreamlike and expressing deep unconscious fears, these stories are also spiked with unsettling humour, showing stylistic daring as well as giving insight into the darkest recesses of the human condition.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Peter Wortsman's powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing the notion of 'angst' and the stories' place in the context of German history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e372 pages\u003cbr\u003ePenguin Classics, 2013\u003cbr\u003e5.1 x 0.9 x 7.8 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780141198804\u003cbr\u003eShort Stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":291577193,"sku":"9780141198804","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Tales-of-the-German-Imagination_Brothers-Grimm_Ingeborg-Bachmann_Peter-Wortsman.jpg?v=1593199965"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/collections\/Schwitters.jpg?v=1359044807","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/collections\/bookstore-artist-monographs-kurt-schwitters.oembed","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}