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Dorothy Iannone

Country: United States

Dorothy Iannone (1933-2022) was an American artist, born in Boston, who lived for decades in Berlin. Self-taught as a painter, she made paintings, books, objects, video and sound pieces about erotic love and female sexuality, in a bright, flat style that borrows from Greek vases, Japanese woodcuts and religious imagery. Her work was often censored in the 1960s and 1970s. Iannone met the Swiss artist Dieter Roth in Reykjavík in 1967. They lived together until 1974 and stayed close until his death in 1998, and her book An Icelandic Saga recounts their first meeting.

Ewig Gruen
Special edition of 30 copies Signed and Numbered by Dorothy Iannone Fullcolour cover and innersleeve by Dorothy Iannone. "When I was living in France in 1975, I made an audio cassette singing some lines from a famous German song: 'Wenn keiner treu Di…
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Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone (Book)
* 2024 stock *  Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone – an unusual lovers’ and artists’ relationship that began in June 1967, when the couple first met in Iceland, and which remained a lifelong friendship even after their separation in 1974. This book presen…
First Recording - 1969
*200 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* First recording: a cascade of sounds and words, recorded one after the other as they arose in the mind, consists of songs and poetry from diverse sources as well as original works by the artist. Re…
Fluxus Anthology 60 Years Anniversary, 1962-2022
** Last copies ** In (heavy and over-sized) wooden box of 80 copies, hand numbered.  Ten audiotapes with interviews/statements, tape collages, electronic music, interview, live events with new and some old material. By Charlotte Moorman, David Tudor,…
The Story of Bern, [or] Showing Colors
* 2021 Stock. English edition * The seminal tale of Iannone's advocacy for sexual liberation. “As much as Love and Eros have defined my work since its beginnings, so too has censorship or its shadow, accompanied it,” recalls Dorothy Iannone in her in…
Censorship and The Irrepressible Drive Toward Love and Divinity
* 2021 Stock. Bilingual edition (English / German) * This publication sheds light on Dorothy Iannone's work in relation to censorship, based on her artist's book "The Story of Bern." In spring 1969, the artist was confronted with the confiscation of …
A Fluxus Essay
Dorothy Iannone (b.1933) tells her Fluxus Story. Recorded in Berlin in 1979. Edition of 300 copies. CD with 20-page A4 offset-printed booklet. "There, Maciunas and I looked deeply but impassively into each other’s eyes, not knowing then that we would…