mundunculum
Object number1979.0198
Titlemundunculum
Creator Dieter Roth (vervaardiger), DuMont Schauberg (uitgever)
DescriptionDieter Roth (1930 Hannover - 1998 Basel) is Duits schilder en actiekunstenaar, ook bekend als Diter Rot of Dieter Rot.
Van 1964 tot 1967 verblijft Roth in de VS, waar hij onder meer doceert aan Yale en aan de universiteit in Providence, Rhode Island. Hij begint met het maken van afbeeldingen en objecten waarin hij chocolade verwerkt en andere eetbare materialen die aan bederf onderhevig zijn en werkt ondertussen aan zijn boek Mundunculum.
volume 1, Rot‘s videum, a tentative logico-poeticum presented like a plan or program or dream of a provisional mytherbarium for visual plants (with an original contribution by Emmett Williams) 336 pages, letterpress, texts, drawings, rubberstamp pictures · 21.2 x 15.5 cm · stitched, softback dustjacket · printed and published by Dumont Schauberg, Cologne 1961 · edition of 1000 at the publishers‘ demand the words ‘schwanz’ and ‘futz’ were partly changed to ‘schwarz’ and ‘fuss’ (prick to black and cunt to foot).
In the early 1960S Dieter Roth developed an alphabet from 23 rubber stamp motifs, assigning a Symbol to each letter in our alphabet. (He merged I and J, P and Q, and X and Y into one Symbol each.) AU elements of this sign system can in addition take on a different meaning depending on the orientation of the stamped motif. Roth created around 300 stamp drawings in all, most of which were pub- lished in the artist’s book Mundunculum. lts subtitle, “A tentative logico-poeticum, represented as plan and programme or dream for a provisional mythebarium for visionary plants” marks it ironically as an artistic retort to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Roth demonstrated philosophically with the texts and drawings in the book how the visual character code he invented ultimately eludes any clear readability.
This was the first of his artist’s books to be published by the presti- gious DuMont publishing house in a regular edition. Roth hoped that its association with DuMont would help make the book known beyond the usual art circles. In a figurative sense as well, Mundunculum stands for the end of his strictly formalist art concepts. Instead of subjecting his works to strictly defined formal requirements, he began to make allowances for organic decay and thus the unpredictability of chance.
Van 1964 tot 1967 verblijft Roth in de VS, waar hij onder meer doceert aan Yale en aan de universiteit in Providence, Rhode Island. Hij begint met het maken van afbeeldingen en objecten waarin hij chocolade verwerkt en andere eetbare materialen die aan bederf onderhevig zijn en werkt ondertussen aan zijn boek Mundunculum.
volume 1, Rot‘s videum, a tentative logico-poeticum presented like a plan or program or dream of a provisional mytherbarium for visual plants (with an original contribution by Emmett Williams) 336 pages, letterpress, texts, drawings, rubberstamp pictures · 21.2 x 15.5 cm · stitched, softback dustjacket · printed and published by Dumont Schauberg, Cologne 1961 · edition of 1000 at the publishers‘ demand the words ‘schwanz’ and ‘futz’ were partly changed to ‘schwarz’ and ‘fuss’ (prick to black and cunt to foot).
In the early 1960S Dieter Roth developed an alphabet from 23 rubber stamp motifs, assigning a Symbol to each letter in our alphabet. (He merged I and J, P and Q, and X and Y into one Symbol each.) AU elements of this sign system can in addition take on a different meaning depending on the orientation of the stamped motif. Roth created around 300 stamp drawings in all, most of which were pub- lished in the artist’s book Mundunculum. lts subtitle, “A tentative logico-poeticum, represented as plan and programme or dream for a provisional mythebarium for visionary plants” marks it ironically as an artistic retort to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Roth demonstrated philosophically with the texts and drawings in the book how the visual character code he invented ultimately eludes any clear readability.
This was the first of his artist’s books to be published by the presti- gious DuMont publishing house in a regular edition. Roth hoped that its association with DuMont would help make the book known beyond the usual art circles. In a figurative sense as well, Mundunculum stands for the end of his strictly formalist art concepts. Instead of subjecting his works to strictly defined formal requirements, he began to make allowances for organic decay and thus the unpredictability of chance.
Production date 1967
Production period20e eeuw
Object namekunstenaarsboeken
Object categorykunstenaarsboeken
Materialdrukpapier, drukinkt
Techniqueoffsetdrukken
Dimensions
- hoogte: 21.2 cm
breedte: 15.2 cm
pagina-aantal: 336