Product Description: In this volume, Daniel Spoerri (born 1930) embarks on an unconventional dialogue with objects in the Vienna Museum of Natural History, juxtaposing the collections with his own works of art--which themselves are inspired by the aesthetics of collections and taxonomies.

Product Description: Daniel Spoerri was a co-signatory of the Nouveau Réalisme manifesto in 1960, an early member of Fluxus and the author of the classic Anecdoted Topography of Chance, which recorded and annotated the contents of Spoerri's desk. In 1968 Spoerri also opened Restaurant Spoerri, introducing his concept of "Eat Art," which he had initiated a decade earlier, and which explored the creation, decay and "trapping" of food upon tables that were then recapitulated as assemblages...read more

Product Description: With coincidence as his friend, Romanian-born artist Daniel Spoerri has spent the last half century collecting, trapping, arranging and otherwise freezing in place a vast array of common and uncommon objects. His assemblages, montages and collages tell stories, picture stories made up of objects taken from a magical life...read more