Iannones imagetext works celebrate a joyful sexuality and spiritualityFor over five decades Dorothy Iannone has been making exuberantly sexual and joyfully transgressive imagetext works. Karen Rosenberg wrote of her in The New York Times High priestess matriarch sex goddess the selftaught American artist Dorothy Iannone has been called all these things and more. Since the early 1960s she has been making paintings sculptures and artists books that advocate ecstatic unity most often achieved through lovemaking. Beginning with the famous An Icelandic Saga in which Iannone narrates her journey to Iceland where she meets Dieter Roth and leaves her husband to live with him this singular volume traces Iannones search for ecstatic unity from its carnal beginnings in her relationships with Roth and other men into its spiritual incarnation as she becomes a practicing Buddhist. Reproducing several previously unpublished or longoutofprint works in their entirety such as Danger in Dsseldorf The Whip An Explosive Interlude as well as longer excerpts from rarelyseen works like A Cookbook and Berlin Beauties this volume gives readers the chance to read her work with sustained attention and enjoy the sophistication of the stories she tells and the visualtextual embellishments that make them so irresistible.Associated with Fluxus through her close friendships with Emmett Williams Robert Filliou and Ben Vautier as well as most wellknown for her relationship with Dieter Roth Dorothy Iannone born 1933 nevertheless has her own distinct aesthetic style and substantive concerns. Her first major museum show in the U.S. came when she was 75 in 2008 at the New Museum shortly after her orgasm box titled I Was Thinking of You was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2006 and she has recently attained more recognition with solo shows at the Camden Arts Centre Palais de Tokyo and the Berlinischer Galerie.