Dieter Roth: Advertisements 1971-1972

During the 1970s, Dieter Roth published a series of ads twice-weekly in a Swiss newspaper called the Luzerner Stadtanzeiger-ads which consisted of such aphorisms as “A good beginning is an evil end,” “A tear is as evil as a good word” and “Two tears are better than five stones.” This is the first complete publication of Roth’s ads, previously only published as artist’s books.

Text: Wien Barbara. cm 11,5×20; pp. 280; BW ills.; paperback. Publisher: Edizioni Periferia, Luzern, 2010.