TY - BOOK ID - 71203810 TI - The story of Bern, [or] showing colors AU - Iannone, Dorothy AU - Roth, Dieter AU - Paul, Frédéric AU - Dirié, Clément PY - 2019 SN - 9783037645543 3037645547 PB - Geneva JRP Editions DB - UniCat KW - Iannone, Dorothy KW - Bande dessinée UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:71203810 AB - ""As much as Love and Eros have defined my work since its beginnings, so too has censorship or its shadow, accompanied it," recalls Dorothy Iannone in her introduction to this facsimile publication of her legendary "The Story of Bern, [or] Showing Colors." First published in 1970, the book documents the censorship of Iannone's work "The (Ta)Rot Pack" (1968-1969) and the subsequent removal of all his works by her then companion, artist Dieter Roth, from a collective exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern. For his exhibition entitled "Freunde, Friends, d'Fründe," Harald Szeemann invited Karl Gerstner, Roth, Daniel Spoerri, and André Thomkins who all decided to exhibit their artists friends; Roth chose Iannone alongside Emmett Williams. The censorship of Iannone, and Roth's protest, eventually led to Harald Szeemann's resignation as the director of the institution. Telling the story of this act of censorship as well as the context of the exhibition in Bern and its iteration in a non-censored version in Düsseldorf, "The Story of Bern" is emblematic of Iannone's distinctive, explicit, and comic book style, and of her openness about sexuality and the strengthening of female autonomy. Accompanied by a 4-page insert that includes a new text by Dorothy Iannone and an essay about the context of the book publication by Centre Pompidou curator Frédéric Paul, this publication is a facsimile of the original 1970 "The Story of Bern, [or] Showing Colors."" -- ER -