Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone

Deep in the heart of my loneliness, I think of the art of my lioness. German Fluxus artist Dieter Roths enigmatic (and sometimes singsong) mail art for his lover, the artist Dorothy Iannone, was matched only by her responses and the sexually loaded non-mailable art she made featuring the two of them. Roth and Iannone met in 1967, broke up in 1974, and remained friends and lively correspondents until Rothís death. He painted over and dimmed the subjects of postcard photos to make himself the central figure; she needed no prompting to cast him in a starring role in her autobiographically based oeuvre. From my dear old baby, will you please bring this check to the bank so we have some money when I come back, to remember me? they were a fascinating couple; now readers can encounter that passion themselves.