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Item Details
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THE ABSENCE OF WORK
MARCEL BROODTHAERS, 1964-1976 |
| By: |
Rachel Haidu |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£27.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0262014505 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780262014502 |
| Publisher: |
MIT PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
15 October, 1910 |
| Series: |
October Books |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
A provocative investigation of Marcel Broodthaers's work as a reflection on the uses and abuses of language. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1964, at age forty, Marcel Broodthaers (1924--1976) proclaimed that his years of writing poetry -- of being "good for nothing," in his words -- were over, and a brief but dazzling artistic career began. Considered a founding father of institutional critique, Broodthaers created hundreds of objects, books, films, photographs and exhibitions, including a "fictive" museum of modern art that evolved from an installation in his own home to a massive exhibition of over three hundred works representing eagles. In The Absence of Work, Rachel Haidu 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. Haidu's characterization of Broodthaers's contribution to institutional critique represents a major departure from the usual approach to this movement. With The Absence of Work, one of the first monographs on Broodthaers in English, Haidu demystifies a crucial and enigmatic figure in postwar and contemporary art. |
| Reader Age: |
From 18 |
| US Grade: |
College Graduate Student and over |
| Illustrations: |
46 b&w illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
MIT Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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