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Art therapist Sigríður Björnsdóttir provides a rare testimony of her marriage to Dieter Roth as well as their artistic collaborationsSigríður Björnsdóttir met 22-year-old Dieter Roth in Copenhagen in 1952. A year later, Roth joined her in Reykjavík, and in 1957 they married. 50 years later, Björnsdóttir recounts their meeting, the ups and downs of their marriage, their life with their children and their eventual separation. Beyond her own artistic activities, Björnsdóttir describes her collaborative and experimental work with Roth, their encounters with friends and peers within the tightly woven Icelandic creative community and the beginnings of Roth's multifaceted practice. Dieter Roth in My Life is an honest and personal account of a period in Björnsdóttir's life, shared with a man she describes as the love of her life who went on to become a successful and highly influential artist.Sigríður Björnsdóttir (born 1929) is an art therapist and artist living in Reykjavík. She graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in 1952 and went on to become a pioneer in art therapy, practicing in Iceland and lecturing worldwide.

"Engadin" delves into the artist's deep relationship with the Engadin region in the Swiss Alps, which he first visited in the late eighties. In an insightful essay by Dieter Schwarz works  are discussed to explore the Alpine landscapes' impact on the artist. With eighty color illustrations, the book features paintings, overpainted photographs, and archival images, with some materials available to see published for the first time.

?Ed Clark: The Big Sweep, Chronicles of a Life, 1926-2019' offers a vivid portrait of the artist through never-before-seen photos, letters, and ephemera, along with reprints of historical texts and interviews. Exploring Clark's under-examined place in prevailing narratives of art history, the publication will demonstrate the central role he played in the pivotal developments of American abstraction.

Vor dem Hintergrund der historischen Ereignisse in der Schweiz und Europa folgt die Autorin den vielfältigen Verbindungen Bills zu den Pionieren der konkret-konstruktiven Kunst, zu Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hans Arp, Georges Vantongerloo und anderen. Mit Ru¿ckblicken auf Max Bills Zeit am Bauhaus Dessau, seinen Bezu¿gen zu den Kreisen der Pariser Avantgarde der 1930er Jahre, seiner Mitgliedschaft bei Abstraction-Cre¿ation und seinem lebenslangen Ku¿nstlerfreund Georges Vantongeloo mit Exkursen zu den «Zu¿rcher Konkreten» Richard Paul Lohse oder Verena Loewensberg, zeichnet die Autorin ein umfassendes Bild von den prägenden ku¿nstlerisch- intellektuellen Netzwerken, in denen sich Bill in den 1940er Jahren und danach bewegte.Max Bill nahm eine ausserordentliche Rolle als Vermittler zwischen der fru¿hen Moderne und einer ju¿ngeren Generation konkreter Ku¿nstler ein. Seine Bedeutung als Ausstellungsorganisator, Publizist und Verleger kommt ebenso zur Sprache wie sein prägender Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der konkreten Kunst in Lateinamerika oder seine Beschäftigung mit Fragen der Stadtplanung und des Wiederaufbaus schon während des 2. Weltkriegs und danach.