Main entry:

Haidu, Rachel.

Title & Author:

The absence of work : Marcel Broodthaers, 1964-1976 / Rachel Haidu.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.

Description:

xxxv, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"An October book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Identity And Wit -- Moi aussi je me suis demande si je ne pouvais pas vendre quelque chose ..., Galerie Saint-Laurent, Brussels, 1964 -- Moules CEufs Frites Pots Charbon, Wide White Space, Antwerp, May 26 -- June 26, 1966 -- 2. Reading Art -- Pense-Bete, 1964 -- Exposition litteraire autour de Mallarme: Marcel Broodthaers a la Deblioudebliou/S, Wide White Space, December 2-20, 1969 -- 3. Speech And Politics -- Musee d'Art Moderne, Departement des Aigles, Section XIXe siecle, 30, rue de la Pepiniere, Brussels, September 27, 1968 -- Musee d'Art Moderne, Departement des Aigles, Section Litteraire, Brussels, Antwerp, Koln, Dusseldorf, etc., 1968-1971 -- 4. History -- Musee d'Art Moderne, Departement des Aigles, Section des Figures: Der Adler vom Oligozan bis heute, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, May 16 -- July 9, 1972 -- Musee d'Art Moderne, Departement des Aigles, Section Publicite, Neue Galerie, Documenta V, Kassel, June 30 -- October 8, 1972 -- 5. Private And Public -- Un Jardin d'Hiver, second version, in Catalogue-Catalogus, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, September 27 -- November 3, 1974 -- Un Jardin d'Hiver, first version, in Carl Andre, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Gilbert & George, On Kawara, Richard Long, Gerhard Richter, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, January 9, 1974 -- February 3, 1974 -- CONCLUSION -- Decor: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, June 11 -- July 6, 1975.

Summary:

"Considered to be a founding father of institutional critique, Broodthaers created hundreds of objects, books, films, photographs, and exhibitions ... In [book title], [author] argues that all of Broodthaers's art is defined by its relationship to language. His perception of his poetry's "failure to communicate" led him to explore in his art the noncommunicative, nontransparent uses of words. By showing us the ways in which it is instrumentalized across society--used for its efficiency despite the complexities it introduces into communication--Broodthaers shows us how we imagine language to work and points us to its hidden operations."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0262014505 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262014502 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Broodthaers, Marcel Criticism and interpretation.
Broodthaers, Marcel, 1924-1976.
Broodthaers, Marcel.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287051
Call No.: BIB 227808
Status: Available