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(SCHWITTERS, KURT). Steinitz, Kate Trauman. Introduction by John Coplans and Walter Hopps. Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1968. First Edition. 8vo. Boards in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Very Good. 226pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Douglas Nicholson. With a list of biographies. Kate Trauman Steinitz was a Hannover-based colleague, close associate, and here the posthumous biographer of Kurt Schwitters. The first English language memoir of the renowned Dada and collage pioneer, it features an introduction co-authored by former Pasadena Art Museum curators Walter Hopps and John Coplans and includes translations of numerous prose and performance pieces - including the libretto for Schwitters and Steinitz' unpublished 1928 collaborative "science-fiction opera", "Zusammenstoss" ("Collision"). A most handsome example whose dust jacket shows just a bit of light wear and soiling. 0-520-01219-4 Inventory Number: 024470