Edited with text by Christophe Cherix, Manuel J. Borja-Villel. Text by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Cathleen Chaffee, Jean-François Chevrier, Kim Conaty, Thierry de Duve, Rafael García Horrillo, Doris Krystof, Christian Rattemeyer, Sam Sackeroff, Teresa Velázquez, Francesca Wilmott.
The catalog for the Museum of Modern Art's acclaimed Broodthaer's exhibition
Marcel Broodthaers’ extraordinary artistic output placed him at the center of international activity during the transformative decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout his career, from early objects variously made of mussel shells, eggshells and books of his own poetry, to his most ambitious project, the Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles (Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles), and the Décors made at the end of his life, Broodthaers occupied a unique position, often operating as both innovator and commentator. Setting a precedent for what we call installation art today, his work has had a profound influence on a broad range of contemporary artists, and he remains vitally relevant to cultural discourse at large. Published to accompany Broodthaers’ first retrospective in New York, this volume examines the artist’s work across all mediums. Essays by the exhibition organizers Christophe Cherix and Manuel Borja-Villel, along with a host of major scholars, including Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Jean François Chevrier, Thierry de Duve and Doris Krystof, provide historical and theoretical context for the artist’s work. The book also features new translations of many of Broodthaers’ texts.
Marcel Broodthaers (1924–76) worked as a poet and critic until the age of 40, when he declared himself a visual artist. Over the next 12 years, he moved between Brussels, his birth city, and Düsseldorf and London. From 1968 to 1972 Broodthaers operated the Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, an itinerant museum devoted to the exploration of the role of the institution itself and the function of art in society.
Christophe Cherix is Robert Lehman Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.Manuel Borja-Villel is Director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University.
Jean-François Chevrier is Professor in the History of Contemporary Art, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Thierry de Duve is Theorist in Residence, MA Aesthetics and Politics Program at CalArts, Valencia, CA.
Doris Krystof is Curator at Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Cathleen Chaffee is Senior Curator at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Kim Conaty is Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Rafael García Horrillo is Coordinator of Temporary Exhibitions at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Christian Rattemeyer is Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Sam Sackeroff is Mellon MRC Fellow of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Francesca Wilmott is Curatorial Assistant of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Teresa Velázquez is Head of Exhibitions at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Featured image is reproduced from Marcel Broodthaers.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Haber's Art Reviews
John Haber
Broodthaers at his closest to poetry looks both ways, caught between love of the past and fear of the present.
Artnet.com
Ben Davis
gives the breadth of his art room to breathe.
Artspace
Chloe Wyman
clarifying… [it is] ambivalence, rather than militancy, that sets Broodthaers apart.
Bookforum
Albert Mobilio
[An] all-around provocateur who parodied the institutional qualities of a museum by creating one of his own... Acute awareness of the creative process... informs Broodthaers's entire oeuvre.
Brooklyn Rail
Tom McGlynn
Evident throughout… is the artist’s insistent message that formal decorum conceals and often intentionally occludes the power of real truths, and that the poet/artist has the key to unlock those verities by playfully rearranging the representational signifiers of cultural capital.
Artforum, Best of 2016
Matthew Higgs
MOMA’s near-definitive account of the work of Broodthaers was a standout among standouts, providing a rare opportunity to consider firsthand the labyrinthine imagination of the twentieth century’s most elusive and enigmatic artist-poet.
Fanzine
Jeff Jackson
Broodthaers created his own context for experiencing his work. This expansive and generously illustrated catalog, which accompanied a recent retrospective, is useful for gaining a better understanding of this mysterious and multifarious artist, whose productions and preoccupations have become increasingly central to the history of modern art.
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In 1974, on the eve of one of his last major exhibitions—at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford—and just one year prior to his death, Belgian surrealist-conceptualist-minimalist artist, photographer, filmmaker, debunker of museums and "defrocked poet," Marcel Broodthaers proclaimed, "I discovered nothing, not even America. I chose to consider Art as useless labor, apolitical and of little moral significance. Urged on by some base inspiration, I confess I would experience a kind of pleasure at being proved wrong. A guilty pleasure, since it would be at the expense of the victims, those who thought I was right." 'Shelf (The D is bigger than the T)" (1966-68) is reproduced from MoMA's landmark survey, published to accompany the exhibition on view through May. continue to blog
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The catalog for the Museum of Modern Art's acclaimed Broodthaer's exhibition
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Edited with text by Christophe Cherix, Manuel J. Borja-Villel. Text by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Cathleen Chaffee, Jean-François Chevrier, Kim Conaty, Thierry de Duve, Rafael García Horrillo, Doris Krystof, Christian Rattemeyer, Sam Sackeroff, Teresa Velázquez, Francesca Wilmott.
Marcel Broodthaers’ extraordinary artistic output placed him at the center of international activity during the transformative decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout his career, from early objects variously made of mussel shells, eggshells and books of his own poetry, to his most ambitious project, the Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles (Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles), and the Décors made at the end of his life, Broodthaers occupied a unique position, often operating as both innovator and commentator. Setting a precedent for what we call installation art today, his work has had a profound influence on a broad range of contemporary artists, and he remains vitally relevant to cultural discourse at large. Published to accompany Broodthaers’ first retrospective in New York, this volume examines the artist’s work across all mediums. Essays by the exhibition organizers Christophe Cherix and Manuel Borja-Villel, along with a host of major scholars, including Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Jean François Chevrier, Thierry de Duve and Doris Krystof, provide historical and theoretical context for the artist’s work. The book also features new translations of many of Broodthaers’ texts.
Marcel Broodthaers (1924–76) worked as a poet and critic until the age of 40, when he declared himself a visual artist. Over the next 12 years, he moved between Brussels, his birth city, and Düsseldorf and London. From 1968 to 1972 Broodthaers operated the Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, an itinerant museum devoted to the exploration of the role of the institution itself and the function of art in society.
Christophe Cherix is Robert Lehman Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.Manuel Borja-Villel is Director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University.
Jean-François Chevrier is Professor in the History of Contemporary Art, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Thierry de Duve is Theorist in Residence, MA Aesthetics and Politics Program at CalArts, Valencia, CA.
Doris Krystof is Curator at Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Cathleen Chaffee is Senior Curator at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Kim Conaty is Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Rafael García Horrillo is Coordinator of Temporary Exhibitions at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Christian Rattemeyer is Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Sam Sackeroff is Mellon MRC Fellow of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Francesca Wilmott is Curatorial Assistant of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Teresa Velázquez is Head of Exhibitions at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
