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Dieter Roth
Stundenbilder (Hourly Photographs), 1977
11692-BK

4 x 6 in. (10.2 x 15.2 cm)

16 leather bound books containing a total of 305 signed photographs with hand written time stamping.
On January 1, 1977, at 1:00 a.m. in Chicago, Roth devised an ambitious photo project for which he planned to take one photograph every hour, 24 hours a day, for 365 days of a year: every hour a shot of what simply lay in front of him at that particular moment. Although he abandoned this idea in March he self-published a set of 16 books in readymade bindings in a small edition of 3 which documents the idea. It is one of the key works of conceptual artists’ books of its time and is a testament to how far ahead of his time Roth's ideas really were. A prescient precursor of Instagram!

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Dieter Roth
Literaturwurst, 1968
7411-BK

10 5/8 x 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (27 x 7 x 7 cm)

Pages of German tabloid BILD shredded and stuffed into sausage casing with gelatin, lard, and spices. Roth’s gesture—shredded pages of a text mixed with spices and lard and stuffed into a sausage casing—remains one of the most radical examples of an artist's book today!
Edition of 50. Unnumbered AP copy; signed and dated, “Diter Rot 68”
Collection Rudolf Rieser.

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Dieter Roth
Poetrie 1 DELUXE, 1966
7381-BK

10 x 5 5/8 in. (25.4 x 14.3 cm)

No. 1 of the bi-annual review of poetry.
26 pages, letterpress on leather pages, hand sewn binding in folding leather box with lead insert.
Total edition of 7. Publisher’s copy No. 0; Collection Rudolf Rieser.

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Dieter Roth
BOOK AC, 1964
8503-BK

16 x 16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm)

24 black and white sheets with die-cut slots in 90 degrees in various sizes ( .2, .5, 1. 1.5, 3.5 and 6.5cm). Signed in ink and numbered on colophon page. Published by Ives-Sillman, Inc. New Haven, Connecticut. In the original black cloth box with the rare original publisher's white cardboard box. Edition 19 of 250.

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Dieter Roth
bok 4a, 1961
893

15 11/16 x 11 in. (40 x 28 cm)

80 pages, letterpress on double sheets, spiral binding.
Printed by Prentsmioia Jóns Helgasonar, Reykjavik. Published by forlag ed, Reykjavik.
Copy 70 of 100 (approx. 20 copies destroyed); signed and inscribed to painter and graphic designer Eugen Jordi.

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Dieter Roth
book aa, 1960
4407-BK

15 x 15 in. (38 x 38 cm)

18 black and white sheets with hand-cut rectangular slots of different sizes. When the sheets are rearranged by viewer, the visual possibilities seem endless.
Published by Edition MAT, brainchild of Daniel Spoerri and Karl Gerstner. The idea of MAT editions was to take an original art piece from an artist and reproduce it.
This is the copy no. 27, signed with the artist’s fingerprint and dated Sept. 60.
DR. CW. 20 # 4.

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Dieter Roth
bok 1956-59, 1959
3849-BK

7 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (20 x 21 cm)

Artist's book, published in an edition of approximately 150 copies. Monotype lettersets allowed Roth to orient single typographic elements in any direction, and to exercise an interest in mirroring and symmetry by using the characters d, b, p, and q to make inverse and reverse versions of themselves. In "bok 1956-1959", language becomes divorced from meaning, and its parts become abstract compositional elements, selected for aesthetic rather than linguistic value.

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Dieter Roth
Kinderbuch, Children's Book, 1957
8493-BK

12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (32 x 32 cm)

Roth's first published artist's book comprising 28 pages, 4 color linocut of geometric shapes with spiral binding. Created using just two shapes, the circle and the square, and the three primary colors, red blue and yellow plus black. Roth demonstrated his interest both in the accumulation of forms and in compositional symmetry. Edition of 100, few copies survive today.

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Ed Ruscha
Set of 16 books from Henry Hopkins, 1963-78
4377-BK

Set comprises 16 seminal books by the artist: Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Various Small Fires, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Royal Road Test, Business Cards, Nine Swimming Pools, Crackers, Babycakes, Real Estate Opportunities, A Few Palm Trees, Dutch Details, Records, Colored People, and Hard Light. All signed or inscribed to Hopkins except Babycakes, which has the rare ”compliments of author card” signed "give to henry, Ed" from Ruscha enclosed. Hopkins was the curator at the LA County Museum in the 1960s and bought Ed's first painting for the museum. Henry Hopkins directed the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before returning to UCLA, where he led the Wight Art Gallery and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Dimensions variable.

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