An Anecdoted Topography of Chance is arguably the most important and entertaining "Artist's Book" of the post-war period. This edition is the definitive appearance to date of a unique collaborative work by four artists associated with the FLUXUS and Nouveau Realisme movements, and is substantially larger than the three previous versions published in France, the USA and Germany. What is the Topography? Hard to explain an idea so simple yet so brilliantly executed. Following a rambling conversation with his dear friend Robert Filliou, Daniel Spoerri one day mapped the objects lying at random on the table in his room, adding a rigorously scientific description of each. These objects subsequently evoked associations, memories, anecdotes; not only from the original author, but from his friends as well: a beguiling creation was born. Many of the principal participants of FLUXUS make an appearance (and texts by Higgins, Jouffroy, Kaprow, Restany, and Tinguely are included, among others). It is a novel of digressions in the manner of Tristram Shandy or Robbe-Grillet; it's a game, a poem, an encyclopaedia, a cabinet of wonders: a celebration of friendship and creativity. The Topography personifies (and pre-dates) the whole FLUXUS spirit and constitutes one of the strangest and most compelling insights into the artist's life. From out of the banal detritus of the everyday a virtual autobiography emerges: of four perceptive, witty and eloquent members of the human species.

Anecdoted Topography of Chance: Probably Definitive Re-Anecdoted Version (Atlas Arkhive, No. 4: Documents of the Avant-Garde)

Daniel Spoerri

Emmett Williams

Robert Filliou

Dieter Roth

Arts & Photography

Atlas Press

Long out-of-print since its first edition in 1970, Robert Fillious work in continuous progress remains an essential primer to the artists still radical ideas on participatory art making and teaching. Along with extensive writing by Filliou, the book includes interviews with numerous artists close to him, such as Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, John Cage, Dorothy Iannone, Allan Kaprow and Diter Rot. This edition is an exact facsimile of the original, in order to preserve its highly inventive bilingual (English/German) layout and idiosyncratic composition.

Robert Filliou: Teaching And Learning As Performing Arts (English and German Edition)

Occasional Papers

Robert Fillliou [sic]: Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Galeries contemporaines, 10 juillet-15 septembre 1991 (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Editions du Centre Pompidou

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