Marcel Broodthaers

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MARCEL BROODTHAERS
Edited by Marie-Puck Broodthaers. Text by Wilfried Dickhoff, Bernard Marcadé.
D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS, INC.
ISBN: 9781938922299 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2013
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MARCEL BROODTHAERS: COLLECTED WRITINGS
Edited by Gloria Moure. Text by Birgit Pelzer. Preface by Marie Gilissen Broodthaers.
EDICIONES POLIGRAFA
ISBN: 9788434312876 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 5/31/2013
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MARCEL BROODTHAERS TODAY
Foreword by Gregor Jansen, Vanessa Joan Müller. Text by Elodie Evers, Gregor Jansen.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865608918 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2011
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MARCEL BROODTHAERS: THIS IS A PIPE
Edited by Maria Gilissen.
MERZ
ISBN: 9789069170114 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 4/2/2002
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MARCEL BROODTHAERS
Artwork by Marcel Broodthaers.
CANTZ
ISBN: 9783893228362 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 7/2/1996
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Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers

Edited by Marie-Puck Broodthaers. Text by Wilfried Dickhoff, Bernard Marcadé.
Published by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

Marcel Broodthaers filled his brief, 12-year artistic career with more ideas and works than most artists manage in a lifetime. This career began in 1964, following a period of more than two decades laboring in some obscurity as a poet in the Belgian Surrealist circle of René Magritte (a crucial mentor for Broodthaers) and Paul Nougé. He also wrote articles on art during these years, including early critiques of Pop art. Broodthaers' first exhibition, held that year in Brussels, was accompanied by a now-famous announcement: "I, too, 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." 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, and with a range of both classic and never-before-seen works, this volume is the largest and most authoritative Broodthaers monograph ever published. As such, it is the first substantial overview in nearly 25 years. It includes a biography, exhibition chronology and a selected bibliography of publications.
Marcel Broodthaers was born in Belgium in 1924. From the late 1940s to the early 1960s he worked primarily as a poet, and was a member of the Belgian Groupe Surréaliste-revolutionnaire. After almost two decades of poverty, Broodthaers performed a symbolic burial of his career as a poet by embedding 50 copies of his poetry collection Pense-Bête in plaster. Broodthaers died in 1976, on his fifty-second birthday, and is buried in Brussels beneath a tomb of his own design that features images from his allegorical repertoire, including a pipe, a wine bottle and a parrot. An important collection of his work can be seen at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Marcel Broodthaers: Collected Writings

Edited by Gloria Moure. Text by Birgit Pelzer. Preface by Marie Gilissen Broodthaers.
Published by Ediciones Poligrafa

“I, too, asked myself if I could not sell something and succeed in life... Finally the idea of inventing something insincere came to me and I got to work immediately.” With this statement, penned for his first solo show in April, 1964, Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) announced his death as a poet and birth as an artist. In fact, he was to transform the category of artist completely, purging the vocation of its medium-specific implications to pursue a unified conceptualism across media such as artist's books, prints, film, installation, sculpture and writings--” where the world of plastic arts and the world of poetry might possibly, I wouldn't say meet, but at the very frontier where they part.” Broodthaers' Museum of Modern Art, Eagles Department (1968-1972) inaugurated the practice now known as institutional critique, and the linguistic foundations of his art--as well as his emphasis on printed multiples--also proved prescient for subsequent strains of Conceptual art. Edited by Gloria Moure in collaboration with the artist's estate, this momentous publication eclipses in its scope all previous Broodthaers writings collections. It gathers his early poetry, statements, critical essays both published and unpublished, open letters, interviews, preparatory notes and scripts, plus a wealth of illustrations.
Marcel Broodthaers was born in Belgium in 1924. From the late 1940s to the early 1960s he worked primarily as a poet, and was a member of the Belgian Groupe Surréaliste-revolutionnaire, which included André Blavier, Achille Chavée and René Magritte. After almost two decades of poverty, Broodthaers performed a symbolic burial of his life as a poet by embedding 50 copies of his poetry collection Pense-Bête in plaster. However, his art continued to be characterized by its emphasis on written text. Broodthaers died in 1976, on his fifty-second birthday, and is buried in Brussels beneath a tomb of his own design that features images from his allegorical repertoire, including a pipe, a wine bottle and a parrot.

Marcel Broodthaers Today

Of Real Presence

Foreword by Gregor Jansen, Vanessa Joan Müller. Text by Elodie Evers, Gregor Jansen.
Published by Walther König, Köln

The ongoing influence of Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) has extended itself to video art, Relational Aesthetics and text art of all kinds. This volume assesses that multifarious influence, in works by Tacita Dean, Olivier Foulon, Andreas Hofer, Henrik Olesen, Kirsten Pieroth, Stephen Prina, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Joëlle Tuerlincks, Susanne M. Winterling and Cerith Wyn Evans.

Marcel Broodthaers: This Is A Pipe

Ceci Est Une Pipe, Dies Ist Eine Pfeife

Edited by Maria Gilissen.
Published by Merz

This previously unpublished Broodthaers project was conceived in 1970, in reaction to the 1968 publication of the now famous Michel Foucault book-length essay This is Not a Pipe. The Magritte painting "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" which sparked this debate was of paramount importance to Broodthaers, opening up lasting themes and avenues of exploration in his work: "this pipe stands at the beginning of my adventure," he once declared. Reconstituted through fragments recovered from the original project, which Broodthaers aborted in 1972, this book returns to the core of Broodthaers' complex artistic questioning and its entanglement with post-structuralist discourse.

Marcel Broodthaers

Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Drawings

Artwork by Marcel Broodthaers.
Published by Cantz

This stunning volume catalogues the graphic pints and books fo the revolutionary Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers. Exquisite full-plate color photos represent each piece.