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Roth, Dieter, 1930-1998

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1930 April 21 - 1998 June 5

Nationality

Swiss

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

An Anthology [flyer], 1963

 Item — Box 292: [Barcode: 31858072460714]
Identifier: CC-50815-71893
Scope and Contents This object is an announcement card for the publication of "An Anthology." According to 6 Decades Books: LaMonte Young devised this extraordinary pop-up multiple as a prepublication announcement for An Anthology of Chance Operations, the book he co-published with Jackson MacLow in 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations was designed by George Maciunas and includes work by Young and Mac Low, along with George Brecht, John Cage, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, Walter De Maria, Nam June Paik, Dieter Rot, Robert Morris, Al Hansen, and others. The publication is a compendium of the era's dada-inflected avant-garde represented by a collection of works in which traditional boundaries between music, writing, art, and theater were discarded in favor of an aesthetics based ideas, actions, and ephemerality. The book is widely regarded as the high point publication of the Fluxus movement and a founding document of contemporary art. Young created a few dozen copies of the...
Dates: 1963

Folder / Dieter Roth., 1960

 Item — Box 626: [Barcode: 31858073143905]
Identifier: CC-42272-44282
Scope and Contents

This print is listed as 033 in Dieter Roth Graphic Works: Catalogue Raisonne 1947- 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Für die lieben kleinen, 1969

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Scope and Contents

This item was designed as a coloring book. In this copy, only the first page has an image colored in. Each page is stamped with a phrase or sentence.

Dates: 1969

Gorgona: Stupidogram, No. 9, 1966

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-62679-48817
Scope and Contents

Each book consists of a one page drawing entitled "Stupidogramm" consisting of a grid of commas with an area enclosed by an ink line drawing. Not one of the 200 copies is alike. This publication is stored in the 'R' flat files drawer. Note that Roth uses the name Diter Rot for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Noch Mehr Scheisse Eine Nachlese (the book of porn...), 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-39247-41193
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of a book that was first published in 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Paradada (FOR TLS AS-AG NO - 1964), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55982-9999450
Scope and Contents

This essay was published in "The Times Literary Supplement" No.3,258 August 6 1964 in a slightly modified form from this manuscript. The Sackner Archive holds this issue of TLS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Reflections, 1969

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-42581-44597
Scope and Contents

This print is Roth's typographical riff on C. Day Lewis' poem "Reflections." It was one of a series of seven designs commisioned by the Plastics Division of ICI to demonstrate the potentialities of stamping foils in graphic design. Other designers include Alan Fletcher, Jean-Michel Folon, Norman Ives, Pieter Brattinger and Armin Hofmann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Flip Side of Language, 1966

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-59905-10002955
Scope and Contents

This essay is another copy of the manuscript with slightly different handwritten correctionss and appeared in ISIS No.1507, 1966, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966