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The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers, 1964-1976
By (author) Rachel Haidu
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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.
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Publisher | MIT Press Ltd
Published date | 15 Oct 1910
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 400
Dimensions | 229 x 178 x 22mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 1044g
ISBN | 978-0-2620-1450-2
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