Diter Rot : quadrat-blatt

Newsprint sheets of enlargements from "Daily Mirror Book 1961" which was included in Dieter Rot's Collected works, Vol. 20, 1972. In 1961 Roth made a number of miniature books, including the "Daily Mirror" book, from trimmed-down pages of various daily newspapers and magazines. These books cannot be read in any traditional sense as they contain only snippets of images, articles, and advertisements. Words are divorced from their meanings, turned into visual noise.
Blown up well beyond their true size, the pages become fields of abstract pattern and truncated forms, turning the news into a meaningless, orderless jumble and deadening its original function.