Plate (folio 4) from Book AC
Dieter Roth
Swiss, born Germany. 1930–1998
1958-64, published 1964
A die-cut sheet from Dieter Roth’s artist’s book that reduces the page to three identical vertical openings, treating paper itself as the medium and the message.
You notice the quiet precision first: three evenly spaced, cool-gray vertical bars hover in the center of a broad white square, their crisp edges and measured spacing making the page read like a small, minimalist architectural plane.
This work sits within mid‑20th‑century artist‑book experiments that treat the page as a sculptural object, using serial, reductive forms to explore absence, repetition, and the materiality of paper—anticipating concerns of minimal and conceptual art.
Medium
One from an artist's book of twenty-four die-cuts
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 7 15/16 x 6 5/8" (20.2 x 16.9cm); sheet: 16 x 16" (40.7 x 40.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Monroe Wheeler Fund
Accession
584.1966.2
Palette
Exhibitions
