Daniel Spoerri ( born 27 March 1930 in Galați ) is a Swiss artist and writer born in Romania Spoerri is best known for his " snare-pictures ," a type of assemblage or object art, in which he captures a group of objects, such as the remains of meals eaten by individuals, including the plates, silverware and glasses, all of which are fixed to the table or board, which is then displayed on a wall.

Spoerri was born Daniel Isaac Feinstein, on 27 March 1930, in Galați, Romania.

Spoerri later explained snare-pictures as follows: " objects found in chance positions, in order or disorder ( on tables, in boxes, drawers, etc.

Spoerri was then living at the Hotel Carcassone in Paris, in room number 13 on the fifth floor.

" This joint declaration was signed on 27 October 1960, in Yves Klein's workshop, by nine people: Yves Klein, Arman, Martial Raysse, Pierre Restany, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely and the Ultra-Lettrists, Francois Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Jacques de la Villeglé ; in 1961 these were joined by César, Mimmo Rotella, then Niki de Saint Phalle and Gérard Deschamps.

Arman can be seen in Andy Warhol's film Dinner at Daley's, a documentation of a dinner performance by the Fluxus artist Daniel Spoerri that Warhol filmed on March 5, 1964.

* Daniel Spoerri ( born 1930 ), a Swiss artist, known for his " snare pictures " in which he captures a group of objects, such as the remains of meals eaten by individuals, including the plates, silverware and glasses, all of which are fixed to the table or board, which is then displayed on a wall.

In 1960, Pierre Restany and Yves Klein founded the New Realism movement ( in French: Nouveau Réalisme ), and a joint declaration was signed on October 27, 1960 by nine people: Yves Klein, Arman, Francois Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse, Pierre Restany, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely and Jacques de la Villeglé ; in 1961 these were joined by César, Mimmo Rotella, then Niki de Saint Phalle and Gérard Deschamps.

Yves Klein had nude women roll around in blue paint and throw themselves at canvases ; Niki de Saint-Phalle created bloated and vibrant plastic figures ; Arman gathered together found objects in boxed or resin-coated assemblages ; César Baldaccini produced a series of large compressed object-sculptures ( similar to Chamberlain's crushed automobiles ); Daniel Spoerri used meals and food as artsistic material.

Roland Topor added sketches of each object and additional annotations were added " at random " by Williams and others and by Spoerri himself.

Important personal and artistic influences were early meetings with Jean Tinguely, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Spoerri and Eberhard W. Kornfeld in the Basel art scene of the 1980s and with Niki de Saint Phalle in St. Moritz, and the long-time relationship ( going back to 1916 during the first world war and the purchase of a Giovanni Giacometti painting by the grand-grandfather of Hans Bernhard ) with the Giacometti family ( Giovanni Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti ) in the nearby mountain valleys Val Bregaglia and Engadin in the canton Grisons in Switzerland.

In October 1960, Arman, Yves Klein, François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely and Jacques Villeglé, and art critic and philosopher Pierre Restany founded the Nouveau réalisme group.

The fifty-four artists shown included Richard Lindner, Wayne Thiebaud, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, Peter Phillips and Peter Blake ( his large The Love Wall from 1961 ) and Yves Klein, Arman, Daniel Spoerri, Christo, Mimmo Rotella.

In connection with a one man show of his snare-pictures at the Galerie Lawrence in Paris in 1962, Spoerri wrote his Topographie Anécdotée * du Hasard ( Anecdoted Topography of Chance ).

He founded Something Else Press in 1963, which published many important texts including Gertrude Stein, Marshall McLuhan, artists John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Claes Oldenburg, Ray Johnson, Bern Porter, leading Fluxus members George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, Ken Friedman, and others.

His proposal to exhibit the front pages of the Daily Mirror covering the Cuban Missile Crisis was rejected by the organisers Robert Filliou and Daniel Spoerri.

* The Art of Adolf Wolfli Elka Spoerri, Daniel Baumann and E. M. Gomez, ISBN 0-691-11498-6, 2003

* Elka Spoerri, Daniel Baumann and E. M. Gomez, The Art of Adolf Wolfli ( 2003 ).

The collective survived, and featured an ever-changing roster of like-minded artists including George Brecht, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Spoerri, Yoko Ono, Emmett Williams and Nam June Paik.

Daniel Spoerri with snare-picture.

His mother, born Lydia Spoerri, was Swiss and was therefore able to emigrate with her family of 6 children to Switzerland in 1942.

There, he was adopted by his maternal uncle and registered as Daniel Spoerri, a name he has retained.

In the late 1950s, Spoerri married Vera Mertz.

In 1959 Spoerri founded Editions MAT (" Multiplication d ' art Transformable "), a venture which produced and sold copies of three dimensional constructed artworks by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Dieter Roth, Jean Tinguely and Victor Vasarely.

Spoerri is credited with coining the term " multiples " for such works.

This work holds the auction price record for Spoerri, selling for € 136, 312 ($ 200, 580 ) in January 2008, distantly followed by another snare-picture from 1972, which sold for € 44, 181 ($ 69, 860 ) in April 2008.

Spoerri was one of the original signers of the manifesto creating the Nouveau réalisme ( New Realism ) art movement, an avant garde endeavor formed in 1960 .< ref > with Yves Klein, Arman, Cesar, Gerard Deschamps, jacques Villegle, Niki De Saint Phalle.

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In the silence that followed, Miriam walked close to Mrs. Cupply, who drew back a step on her side of the gate.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

But, just as we drew on Europe for assistance in our earlier years, so now do these new and emerging nations that do have this faith and determination deserve help.

Kate drew more and more on her affection for Joel through the hot days of summer work.

He drew her close and, hand on cheek, turned her face to his.

Angelina placed the tray on the table and with a flick of dark wrist drew off the cloth.

As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.

She drew on all her resources of mind and heart to help them -- to make them at home in the world ; ;

and as graduates gratefully recall, she drew on her purse as well.

Jay Porter drew a base on balls to fill the bases but Don Wert's smash was knocked down by Rudolph for the putout.

While Durkheim and others examined the state of modern societies, Mauss and his collaborators ( such as Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz ) drew on ethnography and philology to analyze societies that were not as ' differentiated ' as European nation states.

Throughout the interwar years, French interest in anthropology often dovetailed with wider cultural movements such as surrealism and primitivism, which drew on ethnography for inspiration.

Gender and sexuality became popular topics, as did the relationship between history and anthropology, influenced by Marshall Sahlins ( again ), who drew on Lévi-Strauss and Fernand Braudel to examine the relationship between social structure and individual agency.

E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books.

Jarry's play Caesar Antichrist ( 1895 ) drew on this movement for material.

were able to inhibit bacterial growth, and even to cure bacterial infections in animal ( Ernest Duchesne in 1897 in his thesis " Contribution to the study of vital competition in micro-organisms: antagonism between moulds and microbes ", or also Clodomiro Picado Twight whose work at Institut Pasteur in 1923 on the inhibiting action of fungi of the " Penicillin sp " genre in the growth of staphylococci drew little interest from the direction of the Institut at the time ).

Which relationships, if any, he drew on for his plays, is unclear.

The most basic solution was a pure software system supplied on a ROM cartridge that drew a low resolution approximation of the mode 7 display in a graphics mode.

While Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste ; Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera-seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process.

Each administrator on each sub-division of the estate drew up his own little accounts, for the day-to-day running of the estate, payment of the workforce, production of crops, the sale of produce, the use of animals, and general expenditure on the staff.

Tarrasch's rigid generalizations drew on the earlier work of Wilhelm Steinitz, and were upheld by Tarrasch's sharp tongue when dismissing the opinions of doubters.

As is usual with collaborative efforts in comic strips, his name was the only one credited — although, sensitive to his own experience working on Joe Palooka, Capp frequently drew attention to his assistants in interviews and publicity pieces.

At first this interest drew him to the study of Biblical Hebrew, but he studied the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica on his own.

As an example of efforts in recent times, Heidegger ( who himself drew on ancient Greek sources ) adopted German terms like Dasein to articulate the topic.