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Dieter Roth, "Literature Sausage (Literaturwurst)", 1969.
Between 1961 and 1970 Roth created about fifty “literature sausages.”
To make each sausage Roth followed a traditional recipe, but with one crucial twist:
where the recipe called for ground pork, veal, or beef, he substituted a ground-up book or magazine.
Roth mixed the ground-up texts with fat, gelatin, water, and spices before stuffing them into sausage casings.
The source materials included work by authors and periodicals that the artist either envied or despised; they run
the gamut from lowbrow illustrated tabloids to well-regarded contemporary German novels to the works
of Karl Marx and the influential philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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| Dieter Roth. "Collected Works, Volumes 1–20 (Gesammelte Werke, Bande 1 20)", 1969–79. |
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Dieter Roth, “Codex from MUNDUNCULUM: A tentative logico-poeticum, represented as plan and program or dream for a provisional
mythebarium for visionary plants. VOLUME 1: Rot’s VIDEUM” ,1967. Artist book, publisher Verlag M. Dumont Schauberg, Cologne. |
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| Dieter Roth, “Snow,” 1964/69. Artist book of mixed mediums, with wood table and two wood chairs. |
Source: www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2013/dieter_roth/index.html
