Dieter Roth: Graphic Works [Book + CD]

ClickontheGooglePreviewimageabovetoreadsomepagesofthisbook!DieterRothwasthequintessentialartist'sartist,highlyreveredbyhispeers.Between1947and1998,Rothmade524prints,culminatinginoneoftherichestandmostdiverseprintmakingoeuvresever.Manyareuniqueprints,createdbytheinventivemanipulationofthevariousstagesintheprintmakingprocess,achievingremarkableeditionsinwhichnotoneprintisidentical.Theartistusedallknownandsomenewlyinventedprintmakingtechniquesincludingwoodcuts(reliefprinting),etching,engraving,aquatint(intaglioprinting),lithography,offset(planographicprinting),screenprinting(stencilprinting),pressings(objectsflattenedbyverticallyexertedpressure),andsquashings(objectsflattenedbyhorizontallyexertedpressure).Oftenvariousmethodswerecombined.Roth'screativityandingenuitypushedprintmakingbeyondallknownborders.Allhisprintsarereproducedhereinfullcolor,and,inmanycases,severalexamplesoftheuniqueprintsareshown.AtextbythecuratorDirkDobkeandatextbasedonaninterviewwithRichardHamiltonaccompanythebook.700colorillustrations.