Dieter Roth Collected Interviews

Roth, Dieter; Wien, Barbara; Schmit, Tomas

ISBN 10: 0500970963 / ISBN 13: 9780500970966

Published by Edition Hansjorg Mayer, London, 2019

About this Item

Collection of Dieter Roth's interviews, covering a period from 1958 to the late 1990's; interviewers include Einar Bragi, Richard Hamilton, Peter Killer, Dieter Schwarz, Ira Wool, Barbara Wien; text by Tomas Schmit, edited and with an afterword by Barbara Wien; b&w illustrations throughout; colour endpapers; the English edition; Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper Dustwrapper. 615pp. 8vo. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dieter Roth Collected Interviews
• Publisher: Edition Hansjorg Mayer, London
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500970963
• ISBN 13: 9780500970966
• Binding: hardbound
• Illustrator: b&w illustrations
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 2 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art and Culture

About this title

Synopsis

An intimate and inspiring firsthand encounter with the radical philosophy of the renowned twentieth-century artist Dieter Roth.

The oeuvre of Dieter Roth (1930–1998) encompasses painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, film, video, music, typography, design, architecture, and, last but not least, literature. “His books alone would give him a place of honor in 20th-century art,” wrote artist Richard Hamilton, who championed Roth very early on. But is there a philosophy that ties his media together? In these interviews, Roth offered many surprising and fascinating clues to his life and line of thought.

Included are conversations with Hamilton and the very intimate interview Roth conducted with writer Patrick Frey just a few days before his death, as well as many others. For Roth, who believed that art should not be harmless, but be true, the interviews were an attempt to depict what happens when speaking―the moments where a person loses their train of thought, when different languages get spoken, and when misunderstandings arise.

For anyone who wants to become acquainted with Dieter Roth―the artist and thinker, as well as the human being―there is no better, more amusing, and authentic introduction than the richly illustrated Dieter Roth Collected Interviews, which also presents many of his poems and prose in English.

90 illustrations

About the Author

Barbara Wien was born in 1953 in Munich and works as a gallerist, editor, and publisher in Berlin. She worked for Dieter Roth between 1985 and 1987, and planned the publication of the Dieter Roth Collected Interviews in collaboration with the artist.