Screenprint on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-christie-904" aria-label="More by John Christie" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Christie</a>
Homage to Ursonate
Purchased 1981
actions: expressive
adults
artist, multi-media
arts and entertainment
body
diagrammatic
education, science and learning
emotions, concepts and ideas
film, music and ballet
flag, semaphore
formal qualities
head / face
individuals: male
inscriptions
language
leisure and pastimes
literature and fiction
man
music
music and entertainment
music: Schwitters, Kurt, ‘Ursonate’
named individuals
objects
people
photographic
poem
portraits
quotation
recital
religious and ceremonial
Schwitters, Kurt
sequence
society
symbols and personifications
talking
word
work and occupations
paper print screenprint
Homage to Ursonate
image: 245 × 466 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07603</b> HOMAGE TO URSONATE 1981
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<br/>Inscribed ‘John Christie March 81’ bottom right and ‘Homage to Ursonate’ and ‘8/65’
<br/>Screenprint, printed and published by the artist, 9 5/8×18 3/8 (24.5×46.6)
<br/>Purchased from the artist (donation from Miss Mary Robinson in memory of J.B. Manson) 1982
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<br/>'The sequence of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a> shows Kurt Schwitters in 1944 performing his Ursonate. The words are taken from <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/merz" title="Glossary definition for 'Merz'"><span>Merz</span></a> 24 “Ursonate, Theme II”, and the drawn image across the lower part of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> is derived from the shapes made by semaphore signs.’ (loc.cit.)
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-11T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
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actions: expressive adults artist, multi-media arts and entertainment body diagrammatic education, science and learning emotions, concepts and ideas film, music and ballet flag, semaphore formal qualities head / face individuals: male inscriptions language leisure and pastimes literature and fiction man music music and entertainment music: Schwitters, Kurt, ‘Ursonate’ named individuals objects people photographic poem portraits quotation recital religious and ceremonial Schwitters, Kurt sequence society symbols and personifications talking word work and occupations