Jean-Francois Chevrier Manuel J. Borja-Villel Manuel Borja-Villel
In 1970, Marcel Broodthaers claimed that Mallarma is the source of all contemporary art. Those words serve as a departure point for the exhibition and catalogue, Art and Utopia. Based on Marcel Broodthaers's interpretation of and Mallarma's influence on such seminal figures of modernity as Artaud and Apollinaire, this book reinterprets 20th century art, from Cubism to the historical avant-garde movements to the art of the 1970s, questioning the very idea of modernity. The information contained in this catalogue is highly varied--in addition to an essay by Jean-Francois Chevrier, the...
In 1970, Marcel Broodthaers claimed that Mallarma is the source of all contemporary art. Those words serve as a departure point for the exhibition and...
Christophe Cherix Manuel Borja-Villel Marcel Broodthaers
The first survey in decades of the witty Belgian conceptualist
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 MusEe d'Art Moderne, DEpartement des Aigles (Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles), and the DEcors made at the end of his life, Broodthaers occupied a unique position, often...
The first survey in decades of the witty Belgian conceptualist
Marcel Broodthaers' extraordinary artistic output placed him ...
