Constructivism: The Move To Periodicals
Schwitters' style became more constructivist after this, under the influence of El Lissitsky and De Stijl, the Dutch group co-founded by Theo Van Doesburg, who was to become a close friend and collaborator. A memoir about Anna Blume (Anna Blume's Lead Memoirs in Bleie. An Easy-to-Understand Method for Everyone of How To Learn Madness) was published in 1922 with a markedly cleaner cover in a constructivist style, and this was followed by a series of periodicals, still called Merz, which continued to publish Schwitters' work, within the context of the emerging International Modernism.
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