Marcel Broodthaers

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Marcel Broodthaers filled his twelve-year artistic career with more ideas and works than most artists manage in a lifetime

Marcel Broodthaers filled his twelve-year artistic career with more ideas and works than most artists manage in a lifetime. This career began in 1964, following more than two decades labouring in some obscurity as a poet in the Belgian Surrealist circle of Rene Magritte and Paul Nouge. He also wrote articles on art during these years, including early critiques of Pop art.

Traversing media freely – from installation and sculpture to artist’s books, prints, film and writings – Broodthaers embodied the ‘post-media artist’ for whom any form could be recruited in the service of a larger conception. Those conceptions included institutional critique (of which he is a pioneer), art-historical critique, pastiche and philosophical-linguistic puzzles.

Edited by Broodthaers daughter Marie-Puck, the book includes a range of both classic and never-before-seen works, a biography, exhibition chronology and a selected bibliography.
Extent: 320 pp
Format: PLC (with jacket)
Publication date: 2013-11-18
Size: 30.7 x 25.6 cm
ISBN: 9780500093801

Press Reviews

Incredibly authoritative
Aesthetica

I asked myself if I could not sell something and succeed in life. I had for quite a while been good for nothing … Finally the idea of inventing something insincere came to me and I got to work immediately
Marcel Broodthaers



About the Authors

Marie-Puck Broodthaers is Marcel Broodthaers’ daughter. Bernard Marcadé is the author of several books on art theory, including an important biography of Marcel Duchamp.

Wilfried Dickhoff is a curator and the co-publisher of the journal Inaesthetics.

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