This exhibition follows the career of the german dadaist kurt schwitters from his escape to britain in 1940 to his death in cumbria , focusing on his " merz " collages and assemblages incorporating every conceivable material .
More , perhaps , the foresight saga : a picture of history as a dadaist - evolutionary relay race in which fathers hand on to sons a gruesome readiness for life 's raw appetites and horrors .
