Books published by Hansjorg Mayer

An intimate and inspiring firsthand encounter with the radical philosophy of the renowned twentieth-century artist Dieter Roth.

In the years before Indian Independence in 1947, the Nagas of Northeast India came to exemplify an exotic society. This title offers an examination of how the notion of tribes came to be applied to the Nagas"is linked to its subsequent importance in the development of contemporary Naga nationalism.

Contains interviews with and photographs of the 25 people who knew or worked with Roth during his time spent in Chicago, Providence, New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Many of the works Roth created during that period are illustrated here in full colour.

Featuring seventy colourful, pseudo-historical collage-drawings, this book includes documents from the authors personal archive relating to some of the unlikely things that really happened in Performance Art showbiz over the years.

Dieter Roth's "6 Piccadillies", published by Petersburg Press in 1970, is a celebrated print. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the artist's birth, this book traces the development of these magnificent prints and related projects, revealing Roth's astonishingly creative response to one of London's most famous landmarks.