MERZ

Japanese: MERZ
MERZ

…After the end of World War I, he moved from Dada to Constructivism, and used junk and printed letters as materials to create new forms of design. He called his series of works “MERZ” (a cut from “KOMMERZ”), which ranged from poetry and collage to theater and architecture. His home in Hanover, Merzbau (1920), which brought these works together, is one of his masterpieces, along with the phonetic poem Ursonate. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "MERZ" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…第1次大戦末以来ダダから構成主義へと歩み,廃品や印刷文字を素材にして造形に新機軸を出した。一連の作品をみずから〈メルツMERZ〉(〈コメルツKOMMERZ(商業)〉からの切取り)と呼び,それは詩やコラージュから舞台,建築に及ぶ。それらを集大成したハノーファーの自宅〈メルツバウMerzbau〉(1920)は,音声の構成詩〈原ソナタUrsonate〉とともに代表作である。…

※「MERZ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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