{"id":"merz","no":477,"name":"Merz","ja":"メルツ","era":"1919–1948","family":"前衛","kind":"スタイル","collection":"Dictionary expansion 23","addedAt":"2026-08-18","source":{"title":"Tate — Art Terms: Merz","url":"https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/merz"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/merz","credit":"Tate — Art Terms: Merz","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kurt%20Schwitters%20-%20%22Merz%2050%22%20Composition%20-%20Google%20Art%20Project.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurt%20Schwitters%20-%20%22Merz%2050%22%20Composition%20-%20Google%20Art%20Project.jpg","credit":"Kurt Schwitters《Merz 50》— Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kurt%20Schwitters%20Merz%203.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurt%20Schwitters%20Merz%203.jpg","credit":"Kurt Schwitters『Merz 3』1923 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Plate%202%20from%20Merz%203%20by%20Kurt%20Schwitters%2C%201923%2C%20lithograph%2C%20Metropolitan%20Museum%20of%20Art.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plate%202%20from%20Merz%203%20by%20Kurt%20Schwitters%2C%201923%2C%20lithograph%2C%20Metropolitan%20Museum%20of%20Art.jpg","credit":"Kurt Schwitters『Merz 3』図版2, 1923, リトグラフ — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"}]},"essence":"銀行の広告文の断片から採られた一語を旗印に、切符・包み紙・破れた活字といった廃品だけで構成をつくる個人の運動。ゴミを構成材として扱う態度と、活字断片の抽象的な配置は、コラージュと雑誌デザインの語彙を決定づけた。","cues":["切符・包紙など廃品の貼付","破れた活字と数字の断片","斜行する構成軸","経年した紙の色"],"intents":["技術","懐かしさ","反骨"],"works":["一次資料と代表作から成立条件を比較する","別媒体へ応用できる構成原理を取り出す"],"recipe":{"type":"参照作品の文字・記号・スケールを観察する","layout":"視線と情報を支配する構造を一つ抽出する","material":"時代・地域・制作工程に固有の素材と挙動を確認する"},"avoid":"表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。","colors":["#e9e6dd","#67635d","#171615"],"motif":"graphic","pair":["dada","new-typography"],"study":["雑誌『Merz』の版面","メルツバウの空間","構成主義との共同作業"],"en":{"essence":"A one-man movement flying a word clipped from a bank advertisement as its banner, building compositions solely from refuse—tickets, wrapping paper, torn type. Its attitude of treating rubbish as building material, and its abstract placement of typographic fragments, decisively shaped the vocabulary of collage and magazine design.","cues":["Pasted refuse such as tickets and wrappers","Fragments of torn type and numerals","Diagonal axes of construction","The colour of aged paper"],"works":["Collage-driven editorial and zine layouts built from printed ephemera","Craft-minded branding that composes real tickets, stamps and offcuts"],"recipe":{"type":"Salvaged letterpress fragments—mismatched sizes, partial words, stray numerals","layout":"Tilted constructive axes locking scraps into an abstract armature","material":"Aged tickets, wrappers, stamps and torn print, glued with visible edges"},"avoid":"Avoid arranging the scraps as nostalgic decoration—Merz is construction with rubbish, so every fragment must serve the composition's axes, not evoke the past.","study":["The page layouts of the magazine Merz","The space of the Merzbau","The collaborations with Constructivism"]}}