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16. Container of Vanilic glue, white plastic material, consisting of a squeezable

receptacle ending in a flexible tube, its flexibility allowing it to penetrate between
objects you want to gluea without moving them. Bought in the basement of the Bazar
de l’Hôtel de Ville department store two or three months ago for the sum of — if my
memory is good — 26 francs. [18, 52]b

a. Surgery and glue: doctors at the University of Texas, according to an article in Der
Spiegel in April 1962, have used glue to reconnect severed arteries. After 170 successful
experiments on dogs, the doctors tried the procedure on a man. The reconnected
arteries healed perfectly in seven days, faster than by suturing. (DS 1966)

b. In some primitive cultures, houses are glued together with faecal matter.c (EW 1966)

c. In some cultivated cultures, the toilets are glued together with faecal matter. (DR
1968)

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[ AN ANECDO T E D T O PO G R A PHY O F C HA N C E ]

Group photographs, with names of artists in the Topography capitalised. Above:

Dylaby Group, 1962: PER OLOF ULTVEDT, ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG,
MARTIAL RAYSSE, DANIEL SPOERRI, JEAN TINGUELY, NIKI DE ST. PHALLE.
Below: Antwerp, 1959: Frau Mack, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, JEAN TINGUELY,
DANIEL SPOERRI, POL BURY, YVES KLEIN, EMMETT WILLIAMS.

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APPENDIX I. TOPOGRAPHIC RELIEF INDEX

For the benefit of readers who have not seen MERET OPPENHEIM’S composition based on
the relief features of this Topography (see Introduction III, m, and the maquette from March
1962, above), which consists of the topographic map covered with cotton representing 15
centimetres of snow, the contours of only those objects exceeding 15 centimetres in height
cut out (underlined in the list below), here are the heights of all the objects,a measured at her
request Feb. 28, 1962:
1. ca. 1.5 cm. 21. 7.3 cm. 41 cm. (with socket 62. 12.3 cm.
1a. ca. 1-3 mm. 22. 1.5 mm. and bulb) 63. 1.5 cm.
2. 2.8 cm. (egg cup) 23. 8.5 cm. 45. ca. 3 cm. 64. 1.2 cm.
ca. 5-6 cm. (egg cup 24. ca. 7.5 cm. 46. 1.5 cm. 65. 3 mm.
with shell) 25. 1 cm. 46a. 1.5 mm. 66. 2 cm.
3. 32 cm. 26. 1.7 cm. 47. 2 mm. 67. 1 cm.
4, 4a. ca. 1 mm. 27. 2 cm. 48. 1.5 cm. 68. 1 cm. (on 45;
5. 0.5 mm. 28. 7.5 cm. 49. 1 cm. together ca. 4 cm.)
6. 6.9 cm. 28a. 0.0 mm. 50. 1.3 cm. 69. 2.4 cm.
7. 1.5 cm. 29. 1 mm. 51. 3 mm. 70. 0.5 cm.
7a. 1.5 mm. } 1.65 cm.
30. 7.3 cm. 52. 13 cm. 71. ca. 2 mm.
8. 6.1 mm. 31. ca. 10 cm. 53. ca. 7 cm. 72. 0.9 cm.
9. 21.5 cm. 32. 1.3 cm. 54. ca. 4 mm. 73. ca. 3 mm.
10. 1.5 mm. 33. ca. 3.3 cm. 55. ca. 1 cm. 74. ca. 1 mm.
11. 13 cm. 34. 9.5 cm. 56. ca. 4 mm. 75. 2 mm.
12. 12.5 cm. 35. 23.3 cm.} 32.8 cm.
57. 1 cm. 76. ca. 0.5 cm.
13, 13a. 2.5 mm. 36. ca. 5 mm. 58. ca. 2 mm. 77. 2 cm.
14. 4.5 cm. 37. 1.7 cm. 59. ca. 2 mm. 78. 1.7 cm.
15. 7.3 cm. 38. 11.7 cm. 60. ca. 3-4 mm. 79. 3.5 cm.
16. 14.5 cm. (cut out 39. 0.5 mm. 61. 4 cm. 80. 0.0 mm.
only partly) 40. 1 cm.
17. ca. 2-3 mm. 41. 2.8 cm. a. Total height: 3812.62 mm. Average height:
18. 15 cm. 42. 5.6 cm. 44.33 mm.b (DR 1968)
19. 7.9 cm. 43. 3 cm. b. Corrected total height: 167.7´´. Corrected
20. 11.2 cm. 44. 26 cm. (bottle) average height: 1.94´´. (MG 1995)

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