Scope and Contents This object is an announcement card for the publication of "An Anthology." According to 6 Decades Books: LaMonte Young devised this extraordinary pop-up multiple as a prepublication announcement for An Anthology of Chance Operations, the book he co-published with Jackson MacLow in 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations was designed by George Maciunas and includes work by Young and Mac Low, along with George Brecht, John Cage, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, Walter De Maria, Nam June Paik, Dieter Rot, Robert Morris, Al Hansen, and others. The publication is a compendium of the era's dada-inflected avant-garde represented by a collection of works in which traditional boundaries between music, writing, art, and theater were discarded in favor of an aesthetics based ideas, actions, and ephemerality. The book is widely regarded as the high point publication of the Fluxus movement and a founding document of contemporary art. Young created a few dozen copies of the...

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In her essay "The Myth and the Mythmaker," curator Kathleen Edwards wrote that Roth was influenced by Dadaism, Surrealism, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Fluxus and Conceptual Art. Buzz Spector contributed an essay "The Artist as Archivist, The Book as Body: Dieter Roth's Gesammelte Werke." He defined an Archive as a "repository of texts and/or images organized around a given subject. It provides for a relation of general equivalence between its components, and for a means of sorting through their accumulation. Unlike dictionaries or encyclopedias, which define words or ideas in relation to general linguistic or cultural models, and whose cognitive "force" is directed centrifugally, toward the margins of a discursive terrain, the force of the archive is centipetal, drawing in traces of its concern that coalesce to form clearer - which is to say, denser, more focused - insights into the meaning of its subject." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is review of Dieter Roth's exhibition at UC Berkeley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Andre Balthazar and Pol Bury. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive has several collages, books and prints by Roth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This lists an issue of Gorgona, one of which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Roth's name on the cover of this pamphlet is spelled Diter Rot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue Included the reprinting of several critical essays from books and periodicals dealing with the artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.