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.

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

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.

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

Spoerri drew on a ‘ map " the overlapping outlines of all the 80 objects that were lying on the table on 17 October 1961 at exactly 3: 47 p. m. Each object was assigned a number and Spoerri wrote a brief description of each object and the memories or associations it evoked.

" 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.

While Mark Muller was elected, the other candidate, Micheline Spoerri, who was already a member of the Conseil d ' Etat, did not get elected.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Besides impressive exhibits of modern art by Arman, Michael Buthe, Chagall, Christo, Keith Haring, Otto Reichart, Rebecca Horn, Yves Klein, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Niki de Saint-Phalle, H. A. Schult, Daniel Spoerri, Ben Vautier, Dick Higgins and others, the museum also show Europe ’ s biggest teapot collection with 2, 467 representative teapots from throughout the world and roughly 500 miniature teapots.

In 1960, Spoerri made his first " snare-picture ".

Daniel Spoerri with snare-picture.

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

* Toy Planet ( 1981 ) with Bruno Spoerri

After a liaison with Nusch Éluard, in 1931, Bill married the cellist and photographer Binia Spoerri, who died in 1988.

* Shake, Shuttle And Blow "; Enja ( with Bruno Spoerri, Reto Weber, Christy Doran ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

In the late 1950s, Spoerri married Vera Mertz.

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

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.

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In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

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The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

That was another one of those traps.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

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