Die Blaue Flut
Stuttgart: Hansjorg Mayer, 1967. 330/500 printed. Softcover. Original white wraps with black lettering. 12 x 16 cm. 221 pp. with no illustrations. VG, clean, tight contents, but covers have shelf soiling; art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks, including plastic tape on spine. Item #159406
Text in (mostly) German. Dieter Roth was an artist well known for his multi-faceted work with books and multiples. Over the course of his career, he created numerous artist’s books using a variety of creative approaches, from books with holes cut in them to books made of newspaper clippings. One category of book that Roth engaged with throughout his career was that of the diary. In Flacher Abfall (Flat Waste) (1973-75), Roth documented his life by collecting food packaging and other scraps he produced in the course of daily living. In Ein Tagebuch (A Diary) (1982), he presented a written, filmed, and photographed record of six months in his life. This work, Die Blaue Flut, presents a diary for 1966 that is entirely typographic with cryptic notes printed on each day. No illustrations are included and even the punctuation marks are spelled out as words.
OCLC: 896534037
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