An Anecdoted Topography of Chance: By Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams, Dieter Roth, Roland Topor.
(Book #4 in the Atlas Arkhive Series)
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Book Overview
An Anecdoted Topography of Chance is now acknowledged as the most important, and most entertaining artists' book of the post-war period, and this edition is the definitive appearance of a unique collaborative work by four artists associated with various avant-garde art movements, including Fluxus and Nouveau Realisme. From out of the banal detritus of the everyday a virtual autobiography emerges: of four perceptive, eloquent and engaging members of the human species.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1900565730
ISBN13:9781900565738
Release Date:February 2016
Publisher:Atlas Press LLC
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.2" x 9.3"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This is a supremely lovely book, an accumulation of comments made over time, space, and multiple languages. Here is roughly what happens. Daniel Spoerri had a very messy table. He wrote down the name of everything that was on his table and described it anecdotally. His friend Robert Filliou added some comments which he added as footnotes. Emmett Williams translated the book into English and added his own anecdotes; Dieter Roth translated it into German and added more. Roland Topor added illustrations at some point, and I think there are a couple of footnotes by Alastair Brotchie, the editor of this edition, the Atlas Press edition of 1996 (not sure why it lists Serpent's Tail as the publisher here). I believe there are more recent German and Italian versions which, presumably, add more comments. This sounds like a mess, and it is a mess, but it provides an unmatchable portrait of the lives of a number of important figures in the European avant-garde from the early 1960s.
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