Artist Dorothy Iannone has had a gloriously versatile career, subverting traditional ideas of domesticity—such as the cookbook—and making them into deliciously sexualized, autobiographical works of art. Based in Berlin and still working at the age of eighty-six, her pieces from the 1970s have been garnering the attention they rightly deserve over the last few years. Now publisher Artbook is going back further into her archive with a republishing of her body of work The (Ta)Rot Pack, created between 1968 and 1969. This, er, festive lithograph card is taken from a page of that book; and is a snapshot of the publication’s broader presentation of Iannone’s life and love affair with artist Dieter Roth. In its entirety, it explores their time spent together in Germany, France and Iceland—“always immersed in the beloved”, as the artist touchingly put it. However, this ain’t all rose petals and sentimentality of course—her illustration is typically graphic in its portrayal of physical romance. Thinking about it, pretty much the only festive thing about it is the red and green colour palette. Ding dong merrily on high indeed.
