Showing posts with label dieter roth. Show all posts
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Monday, July 4, 2011

Diter Rot: Copley Book

cover, select pages, and details from Copley Book by Dieter Roth (in collaboration with Richard Hamilton), William and Noma Copley Foundation, Chicago, 1965.
112 loose pages of various sizes (including folded sheets and posters) in a cardboard cover/folder. Originally, the book was held together with a single staple through the center of the cover and all contents. Includes offset, embossing, diecut, and letterpress, printed by P. Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd., London and Bradford.
Unfortunately, my copy is incomplete (not the original 112 pages).

Monday, March 8, 2010

Gummibandbild (rubber-band picture) by Dieter Roth, 1961, pigment, nails and rubber bands on plywood. Photo: Adda Ragnarsdóttir and Karl Roth playing with a Gummibandbild.

From Roth Time: A Dieter Roth Retrospective, MOMA & Lars Müller, 2003

see D.R. also here.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Robert Filliou: Mister Blue From Day-to-Day

Mister Blue From Day-to-Day by Robert Filliou, Edition Lebeer Hossman, Brussels, 1983

Filliou wrote this book for his two children in 1963, but it wasn't printed until 1983 (now for his granddaughter). Illustrated by Dieter Roth, Robert Filliou, Stefan Wewerka, Bjorn Roth, Jan Voss, Emil Schult, and Andre Thomkins. English and German text. Edition of 1000 copies.

One very, very hot Wednesday afternoon, Mister Blue walked fully clothed into the sea, lied carefully on his back, and went to sleep, his hat over his face. Actually, he hadn't meant to fall asleep. Wednesday is the day of the week when Mister Blue cures small children of the fear of water, and he had walked into the sea to teach example.
And soon he began to dream...