Word: merz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Collage, for example, was originally developed by the cubists; yet when the German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters began to build his many-splendored "Merz pictures" from old newspaper scraps, driftwood, buttons and other attic rubbish, his works took on a pathos and intimacy that more formal cubist compositions lacked. Schwitters himself always insisted that Merz was a nonsense syllable, derived from a phrase from an advertisement for the "Kommerz und Privatbank." But merzen is also an obsolete German verb connoting rejection. Both as nonsense and as nostalgia, Schwitters' handsome, 5-ft. by 4-ft. Merz Picture with Rainbow clearly foreshadows...
...attempts to create a Berkeley attitude toward toward university life should receive as little attention from the Administration as it has from the students. We have shown repeatedly that we are not interested in chasing the chimera of "student government." Sincerely yours, MICHAEL R. MERZ...
Michael R. Merz '67, vice-president of the Republican Club, said last night that a binding referendum "would destroy the freedom of students who want to comply with...
...University refuses to compute a student's class rank," Merz said, "you can imagine how some East Texas draft board is going to treat...
...brought from the academy. I felt myself freed [from the war] and had to shout my jubilation out to the world. Out of parsimony I took whatever I found to do this, because we were now a poor country." He called this art of shreds and patches Merz, a meaningless word derived from Kommerz (commerce), but carrying with it connotations of both ausmerzen (to reject), Herz (heart), and Schmerz (pain). In the form of rubbish, Schwitters brought elements of reality physically into his art. In his studio in Germany, he also constructed a collage environment-his famed Merzbau...