Living Ur Sonata: Conjuring Kurt Schwitters to Transcend Authority and Seize the Hour

Andrew Laties (1959— ) co-founded Urchestra, Easton Book Festival, Book & Puppet Company, Vox Pop, The Children’s Bookstore, Chicago Children’s Museum Store, and Eric Carle Museum Bookstore. His Ur Sonata performances with Lynn Book were honored in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s retrospective Art in Chicago: 1945-1995. He shared the 1987 Women’s National Book Association’s Pannell Award for bringing children and books together. His Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight For—From Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities won the 2006 Independent Publisher Award and is available in a 2nd edition from Seven Stories Press.

Kurt Schwitters (1887—1948) was a painter, collage-maker, typographer, sculptor, graphic designer, writer, and performer: one of the world's leading experimental artists.