Marcel Broodthaers: Strategy and Dialogue

ISBN-13: 9783039109180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 305 str.

Deborah Schultz

Opis

The poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924-76) is widely recognized as a key figure in 20th century art who questioned the nature of art, the role of the artist, the functioning of the museum and of the art market. This book sets out Broodthaers s strategy for artistic success and examines the dialogue into which he entered with his contemporaries and predecessors in 19th century French poetry, Pop and Conceptual Art, including Stephane Mallarme, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Duchamp and Rene Magritte. It provides a broad overview of his objects, paintings, films, slides, books and installations, and his focus upon relationships, also central to Post-Structuralist and postmodern theories. The visual qualities of his works, combining the material with the poetic, his wit and irony, are examined in relation to his subtle method of questioning and contradicting, defying conventional systems and definitions. The author explores the wider framing contexts in which things are presented and the geographical context via maps, notions of the voyage and a sense of place. Institutional critique, the artist s political position and moral responsibilities in society are discussed by analyzing the responses of Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Joseph Beuys and Hans Haacke to a series of museum events in the early 1970s."

Spis treści

Contents: Transition: From Poet to Poet/Artist - Textual Evidence: Intention, Insincerity and Commerce - Broodthaers's Objects in Context: Magritte, Pop and Nouveau Réalisme - The Museum, The Décor - Presentation and Re-Presentation - The Conquest of Space: Maps, Mapping and the High Seas - Art and Politics: Broodthaers, Beuys, Haacke, Buren - Posthumous reception in art and criticism.

O autorze

The Author: Deborah Schultz received her doctorate in History of Art from the University of Oxford. She is a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, and teaches at Richmond University and Regent's College, London. She has published on contemporary art, photography, pictorial narrative, maps and memory. She is a regular contributor to Art Monthly.