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Dieter Roth BIOGRAPHY
1930 Hanover, Germany - 1998 Basel, Switzerland. Known for: Mixed-media organic material art.
ART REVIEW; Delirious Decay From a Prolific Jack-of-All-Arts. By ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times. Published: March 19, 2004. A WORD of caution before you wade into the dissonant, oceanic survey of... Read full biography
ART REVIEW; Delirious Decay From a Prolific Jack-of-All-Arts. By ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times. Published: March 19, 2004. A WORD of caution before you wade into the dissonant, oceanic survey of the work of Dieter Roth, the German-born, Swiss multimedia dynamo, at the Museum of Modern Art in... Read full biography
ART REVIEW; Delirious Decay From a Prolific Jack-of-All-Arts. By ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times. Published: March 19, 2004. A WORD of caution before you wade into the dissonant, oceanic survey of the work of Dieter Roth, the German-born, Swiss multimedia dynamo, at the Museum of Modern Art in Long Island City, Queens. Expect to be bewildered and even put off: Roth is as irksome as he is awesome, but ultimately awesome wins out. This long overdue exhibition introduces Americans to an artist... Read full biography
ART REVIEW; Delirious Decay From a Prolific Jack-of-All-Arts. By ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times. Published: March 19, 2004. A WORD of caution before you wade into the dissonant, oceanic survey of the work of Dieter Roth, the German-born, Swiss multimedia dynamo, at the Museum of Modern Art in Long Island City, Queens. Expect to be bewildered and even put off: Roth is as irksome as he is awesome, but ultimately awesome wins out. This long overdue exhibition introduces Americans to an artist who not only erased the line between art and life but also pulverized the two into a single process. Roth died in 1998 at the age of 68 after a life of hard drinking and relentless art-making. He is one of those omnibus artists who sooner or later --... Read full biography
ART REVIEW; Delirious Decay From a Prolific Jack-of-All-Arts. By ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times. Published: March 19, 2004. A WORD of caution before you wade into the dissonant, oceanic survey of the work of Dieter Roth, the German-born, Swiss multimedia dynamo, at the Museum of Modern Art in Long Island City, Queens. Expect to be bewildered and even put off: Roth is as irksome as he is awesome, but ultimately awesome wins out. This long overdue exhibition introduces Americans to an artist who not only erased the line between art and life but also pulverized the two into a single process. Roth died in 1998 at the age of 68 after a life of hard drinking and relentless art-making. He is one of those omnibus artists who sooner or later -- sometimes quite a bit later -- intersected with a laundry list of postwar art movements: Fluxus, Art Informel,... Read full biography
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ART REVIEW; Delirious Decay From a Prolific Jack-of-All-Arts
By ROBERTA SMITH, The New York Times
Published: March 19, 2004
A WORD of caution before you wade into the dissonant, oceanic survey of the work of Dieter Roth, the German-born, Swiss multimedia dynamo, at the Museum of Modern Art in Long Island City, Queens. Expect to be bewildered and even put off: Roth is as irksome as he is awesome, but ultimately awesome wins out. This long overdue exhibition introduces Americans to an artist who not only erased the line between art and life but also pulverized the two into a single process.
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