{"title":"Dieter Roth","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"futura-1-bis-13","title":"Futura 1 bis 13","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduced by poet and printer Hansjörg Mayer in Stuttgart between 1965 and 1968, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efutura” series explored the poetic potential of typography through a sequence of 26 broadsides. Each issue featured an exercise in style by a different artist or poet, who was given complete freedom to experiment with the expressive possibilities of language-based art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe broadsides were subsequently issued in two collectible volumes, each comprising 13 works. The first volume brings together contributions by Mathias Goeritz, Klaus Burkhardt, Max Bense, Reinhard Döhl, Louis Zukofsky, Bohumila Grögerová, Josef Hiršal, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Claus Bremer, Augusto de Campos, Edward Lucie-Smith, Dieter Roth, Emmett Williams, and Frieder Nake, offering a remarkable survey of the international concrete and experimental poetry movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54144732791123,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Futura1.png?v=1782830888"},{"product_id":"collected-works","title":"Collected Works","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54207426953555,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Hamilton_smallweb.jpg?v=1783253625"},{"product_id":"a-prisoner","title":"A Prisoner","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54214116114771,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DieterRothMultiple1.png?v=1783340113"},{"product_id":"folding-object","title":"Folding object","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54342164775251,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Dieter_Roth_browndots_detail.png?v=1784378720"},{"product_id":"folding-object-1","title":"Folding object","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54342178668883,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DieterRoth_Blue_detail.png?v=1784379186"},{"product_id":"dieter-roth-for-migros-kunstler-tragtasche","title":"Dieter Roth for Migros — Künstler-Tragtasche","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54343599292755,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DieterRoth_bag.png?v=1784395857"},{"product_id":"lowenselbst-lion-self","title":"Löwenselbst [Lion-Self]","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the mid-1960s, Dieter Roth began producing multiples in a variety of forms, some incorporating edible materials such as sugar, cheese, bananas, spices, and chocolate. In this monumental bust, the artist portrayed himself as a seated lion. A motif that has persisted throughout the history of art, from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to Kiki Smith's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWoman with Lion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2003) and Ai Weiwei's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlue-and-White Porcelain Lion Merged with Toy Bricks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2023), the lion has been associated with power, authority, protection, and wisdom. As Dirk Dobke observes, however, Roth's lion carries distinctly personal associations:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This sculpture is both a homage to his companion at that time, Dorothy Iannone, whom he called 'my lioness', and a depiction of an alter ego in the form of a seated lion (which anyone who is unfamiliar with the title might easily mistake for a dachshund). The lion motif played an important part in his graphic work during these years. Possibly the idea of the chocolate Löwenselbst was inspired by the place where Rudolf Rieser lived in Cologne Löwenich, Lion-I.” (Dirk Dobke, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDieter Roth: Books + Multiples\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 2004, p. 15)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54383822307667,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DRChoco2.png?v=1784798999"},{"product_id":"flattened-poets-bust","title":"Flache Dichterbüste  [Flattened Poets Bust]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIn the mid-1960s, Dieter Roth began producing multiples in a wide variety of forms, some incorporating edible materials such as sugar, cheese, bananas, spices, and chocolate. In Flattened Poets Bust, the artist depicts himself as literally and metaphorically flattened, adding a disturbing element to the chocolate relief: a crow pecking out his eye. The image subtly recalls Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, whose haunting meditation on grief and irrevocable loss is encapsulated in the refrain \"Nevermore.\" Here, the bird's macabre presence evokes themes of judgment and self-annihilation, while simultaneously introducing Roth's characteristic dark humour: the artist's portrait as a poet is compressed into a box and transformed into an object resembling a chocolate bar. Alongside his “Portrait of the Artist as Bird Food Bust” (1968) and “Lion-Self” (1969), this work presents a punchy and self-conscious critique within the context of the Pop art movement: art becomes edible, while the artist himself is recast, literally, as a consumable commodity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54385584079187,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC1736retweb.png?v=1784811309"},{"product_id":"material-2-diter-rot-ideograme","title":"Material 2: Diter Rot \/ Ideograme","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54579736084819,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4370.png?v=1786627705"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/dieter-roth.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}