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"This pipe stands at the beginning of my adventure. . ." --Marcel Broodthaers.This unpublished Marcel Broodthaers project was conceived in 1970 in reaction to the 1968 publication of the now famous Michel Foucault essay "This is not a pipe." The Magritte painting "Ceci n'est pas une pipe," which sparked this particular semiotic run-around, was of paramount importance to Broodthaers. 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 entanglements with post-structuralist discourse.
Edited by Maria Gilissen.

8.25 x 11 in.
7 color, 12 b/willustrations
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The work of the late Belgian artist and poet, Marcel Broodthaers, analyzes the institutional conditions of art production at the end of the modernist period and is central to current debates on postmodernism. This book presents a selection of Broodthaers' own writings, interviews with the artist, 90 illustrations of his work, a complete bibliography, and critical essays.

This important review and analysis of Broodthaers's work begins with examples of writings front the time of his involvement with the Belgian Surrealist group of the late 1940s to the mid 1970s, when he introduced into his work theories of signification developed by structuralist, linguistics and the critique of institutions formulated by Michel Foucault. The critical essays consider the widely varied mediums of the artist's work, including poetry, books, films, and installations.

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is Assistant Professor of Art History at SUNY, Old Westbury. An October Book. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on January 1, 1996. The length of the article is 998 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Marcel Broodthaers (exposition).
Author: Louis Cummins
Publication: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1996
Publisher: Parachute Contemporary Art
Issue: 81Page: 47-8

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