Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3935567278 ISBN 13: 9783935567275

Publisher: Holzwarth Publications, 2006

Synopsis

ìDeep in the heart of my loneliness, I think of the art of my lioness.î German Fluxus artist Dieter Rothís enigmatic (and sometimes singsong) mail art for his lover, the artist Dorothy Iannone, was matched only by her responses and the sexually loaded non-mailable art she made featuring the two of them. Roth and Iannone met in 1967, broke up in 1974, and remained friends and lively correspondents until Rothís death. He painted over and dimmed the subjects of postcard photos to make himself the central figure; she needed no prompting to cast him in a starring role in her autobiographically based oeuvre. From ìmy dear old baby, will you please bring this check to the bank so we have some money when I come back,î to ìremember me?î they were a fascinating couple; now readers can encounter that passion themselves.

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About the Author

Dieter Roth was born to a Swiss father and German mother in Hannover, Germany, in 1930, and was later sent out of Nazi Germany to live in Switzerland with foster parents. He received his training in graphic design in Bern, where he also became interested in avant-garde design and poetry. A despiser of routines, he moved often, living in places as remote from one another as Reykjavik, London, Basel, Hamburg and Providence, Rhode Island; in each of these places he created a new identity and used a variation of his birth name, Karl Dieter Roth, such as Dieter Roth, Diter Rot and Dieterrot. He died in 1998.

"Exhibitions: Sprengel Museum/Hannover/August-May, 2000; Dusseldorf/Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen/November 2000-February 2001; Munich/Haus der Kunst/March-May, 2001"

About this edition

• Publisher: Holzwarth Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 3935567278
• ISBN 13: 9783935567275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 226