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Dieter Rot (Diter Roth, Dieter Roth) , continued

Links:

Roth Time - A Dieter Roth Retrospective

Dieter Roth Foundation

Dieter Roth Online - Artcyclopedia

Virtual Tour - Dieter Roth: Printed Pressed Bound

Artists.org Brief Biography

Also Published:

  • Dieter Roth : Druckgraphik : Catalogue Raisonné 1947-1998
  • Dieter Roth : Originale
  • Dieter and Dorothy : Dieter Roth, Dorothy Iannone : Their Correspondence in Words and Works 1967-1998
  • Art is Life/Life is Art : The Graphic Work of Dieter Roth, September 11-November 7, 1999
  • Snow 


Above: The cover of Rot's Bok 3a.

Right: Examples of two different pages from Dieter Rot's Bok 3a Wiederkonstruktion des Buches aus dem Verlag Forlag Ed. 1961. Published by Seimannsverlag, Reykjavik 1971 c. 1970.


Above: The cover of Rot's Daily Mirror Variante der als 'Quadratbuch' bei De Jong in Hilversum 1961 ershienen. Published by Hanjörg Mayer, Köln, 1970

Right: Examples of two pages from Dieter Rot's Daily Mirror.

 


The pages from Rot's seem to be taken from newspapers. Some pages include images, advertisements, and even obituaries.


Other pages include only text. Many of the images and text elements are repeated throughout the book.



Above: An example of one of the pages from Rot's Daily Mirror.


Above: An enlargement of the inset on the lower right corner of the above page.



Above: Another example of a page from Rot's Daily Mirror.


Above: An enlargement of the inset on the lower right corner of the above page.

 


Above: One image from Rot's A Look into the Blue Tide Part 2.
A Look into the Blue Tide Part 2 also provides a brief biography of Rot: " born in Hannover, Germany in 1930, but was brought up in Switzerland where, at the age of 17, he was apprenticed to an advertising designer. He left this field to study art in 1952...in 1957 he married and moved to Reykjavik, Iceland, where, working in complete isolation, he produced the series of brilliant and highly original books which were central to the subsequent developments of Op art and concrete poetry."


Above: The cover of A Look into the Blue Tide Part 2, by Dieter Rot, 1967. A Great Bear Pamphlet.

The colophon provides an explanation of the pamphlet: It is a "very brief sampling from the continuation of die blaue flut ("the blue tide")...The original is handwritten, layer over layer, in blue, red, green, black, grey, and yellow, and is a full length work."

Above: A two-page spread from A Look into the Blue Tide Part 2.

Above: Text from A Look into the Blue Tide Part 2.
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