Kurt Schwitters's Intermedia Networks of the Avant-garde - The Merz Series (1923-1932) and Merz Printed Papers

库尔特·施维特斯的前卫媒介网络 - 梅尔茨系列（1923-1932）和梅尔茨印刷论文

• 批准号: 285657063
• 负责人: Dr. Thomas Burch
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Kurt Schwitters Archiv
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/285657063?language=en
• 关键词: Kurt; Schwitters; Intermedia; Networks; Avant

The proposed research project is dedicated to a multimedia avant-garde magazine series edited by Kurt Schwitters between 1923 and 1932 and named after his own comprehensive art concept Merz. The essential principles of Merz are the transgression of medial and structural boundaries and the use of foreign materials of all sorts for the purpose of artistic processing. The Merz series forms a focal point of the artist`s interests and practices on both a structural and content level. An accurate scientific analysis of the series can therefore provide crucial insights into the development and the artistic strategies of the oeuvre on the one hand and into the positioning of Merz within the international avant-garde on the other hand. For the first time ever, the project Kurt Schwitters`s Intermedia Networks of the Avant-garde - The Merz Series (1923-1932) and Merz Printed Papers seeks to fully research this unique document of the interwar period in all its structural and design-related characteristics from an interdisciplinary point of view and to present it in a comprehensive and scientifically grounded way as both a digital edition and a print edition. Additionally, the manifold relations to Schwitters`s advertising printed matter are meant to broaden the perspective in terms of the practical application of his typographical concepts and also to visualise his transgressive approach with respect to the boundaries between art and applied art. Because of the series` occasionally structure-breaking diversity in both form and topics, the Merz magazines have so far neither been studied in view of their journalistic management nor have their transgressive contents been explored with full consideration of the state of source material and contextualised within the framework of the entire series. The proposed project seeks to enable a new approach to the Merz series: Taking into account previously unexplored materials, the Merz magazines will be examined in the context of Schwitters`s comprehensive artistic principles of content and design and presented as an integral part of his total art concept. The formal and design-related characteristics of the material require a highly visualised form of editorial representation plus the linking-up of various media. The challenges presented on an editorial level additionally demand an innovative concept with regard to the digital infrastructure, thus enabling decisive advancements in the field of Digital Humanities. This is why the Trier Center for Digital Humanities is intimately involved in the project. Only by means of interdisciplinary collaboration is it possible to develop valid terms and structures of presentation suited to capture the complexity of the issue. Thus, the project will not only make an interdisciplinary contribution to Schwitters research, but also contribute to the expansion of the instruments of literary analysis and of the technical facilities in electronic publishing.

拟议的研究项目致力于库尔特·舒维特斯在1923年至1932年间编辑的多媒体前卫杂志系列，并以他自己全面的艺术概念默茨命名。Merz的基本原则是超越中间和结构的界限，为了艺术处理的目的使用各种外来材料。Merz系列在结构和内容两个层面上形成了艺术家兴趣和实践的焦点。因此，对该系列进行准确的科学分析，一方面可以为大作的发展和艺术策略提供重要的见解，另一方面可以为梅尔茨在国际前卫中的定位提供重要的见解。库尔特·施维特的前卫媒体网络--梅尔茨系列(1923-1932)和梅尔茨印刷纸项目首次试图从跨学科的角度全面研究这份关于两次世界大战之间时期的独特文件的所有结构和设计相关特征，并以全面和科学的方式将其呈现为数字版和印刷版。此外，与Schwitters的广告印刷品的多重关系意在拓宽他的排版概念的实际应用的视角，并将他关于艺术和应用艺术之间的边界的超越性方法可视化。由于系列杂志在形式和主题上偶尔会打破结构的多样性，到目前为止，人们既没有从新闻管理的角度对梅尔茨杂志进行研究，也没有充分考虑原始材料的状态来探索它们的越轨内容，也没有在整个系列的框架内对其进行背景分析。拟议中的项目旨在为Merz系列提供一种新的方法：考虑到以前未探索的材料，Merz杂志将在Schwitters全面的内容和设计艺术原则的背景下进行审查，并作为其整体艺术概念的组成部分呈现。材料的形式和与设计相关的特点要求高度可视化的编辑表现形式，以及各种媒体的联系。编辑层面的挑战还要求在数字基础设施方面有一个创新的概念，从而使数字人文领域能够取得决定性进展。这就是特里尔数字人文中心密切参与该项目的原因。只有通过跨学科协作，才有可能制定出适合问题复杂性的有效表述方式和结构。因此，该项目不仅将对Schwitters的研究作出跨学科的贡献，而且还将有助于扩大文学分析工具和电子出版的技术设施。