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Merzbau, the grave of the logocentric self: He who screams becomes the space

Author(s) -

Pedro Pousada

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

porto arte revista de artes visuais

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2179-8001

pISSN - 0103-7269

DOI - 10.22456/2179-8001.62320

Subject(s) - dream , mnemonic , annoyance , doctrine , feeling , space (punctuation) , psychology , art , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , philosophy , social psychology , cognitive psychology , audiology , medicine , neuroscience , theology , linguistics , loudness

This article will discuss the Merzbau in Hannover as a "para-architecture" experience and as a doctrine on environmental comfort, connected to intense mnemonic feeling and relaxation. The Merzbau, the Gothic cubic "Traumhaus" (dream house) by Kurt Schwitters, is depicted here as a laboratory of sensory stimuli where an aesthetic control of oblivion, and of annoyance, has been practiced.

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