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Dieter Roth - Stupidogramm
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When Roth first started making Concrete poetry, in the mid-1950s, he termed his compositions “ideograms”; in them, pictures are formed out of letters, punctuation, or other letterset characters. As the rigor of this exercise began to wear on him, he found release in a visually related but philosophically distinct activity, which he called “stupidograms.” Working from a grid of printed commas, he used a pen or pencil to coax out looping chains, teacups, toothbrushes, and other forms, mimicking word-search games. As part of his increasing play with verbal-visual equivalency, here the artist circled punctuation to form pictures rather than circling letters to form words.

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Dieter Roth Stupidogramm, 1961
Dieter Roth Stupidogramm, 1961
Dieter Roth, (from) Stupidogramme (gesammelte werke band 9) [Stupidograms (collected works volume 9)], 1975
Dieter Roth, (from) Stupidogramme (gesa…
Dieter Roth, Collected Works, Volume 9, 1975, Unique Cover
Dieter Roth, Collected Works, Volume 9,…
Dieter Roth, Gorgona No. 9, 1966
Dieter Roth, Gorgona No. 9, 1966
Dieter Roth. Untitled for the journal Gorgona, no. 9. 1966
Dieter Roth. Untitled for the journal G…
Dieter Roth Stupidogramm (Stupidogram) 1962
Dieter Roth Stupidogramm (Stupidogram) …
Dieter Roth, Collected Works, Volume 9, 1975, Unique Cover
Dieter Roth, Collected Works, Volume 9,…
Dieter Roth, Collected Works, Volume 9, 1975
Dieter Roth, Collected Works, Volume 9,…
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