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Marcel Broodthaers
1924 Belgium – 1976 Germany
A Voyage on the North Sea (1973)

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Artist book illustrated with the pairing of a late-nineteenth-century amateur painting of an archetypal European ship and a twentieth-century photograph of a pleasure boat against a modern urban backdrop. It appears that Broodthaers is delivering a rigorous structural analysis based on formal and historical oppositions marking the divide between the nineteenth century and the twentieth: painting versus photography; shipping as commerce versus sailing as leisure. 15×17.5cm, 38pp, untrimmed, pages numbered verso, printed offset in an edition of 1100 copies.
Petersburg Press.

“…A book suggest-ing image as function. A book suggesting the text as function. More than a theory, the subject of this proposition refelcts a simple image of the frustration that rules the social condition of today, for example this year. Perhaps I should add that ‘le sujet brille’. M.B.” Gilissen p. 46.

Ref:
Drucker, Johanna, 1995, The Century of Artists’ Books, Granary Books, NY. pp.224-5.
Glasmeier, Michael, 1994, Die Bücher der Künstler: publikationen und Editionen seit den sechziger Jahren in Deutschland, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart. no 087, pp. 59-60.
Glissen, Maria 1982, Marcel Broodthaers, Catalogue of Books,’1957-1975, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Marian Goodman Gallery, NY; Gallerie Gillespie, Laage; Salomon, Paris. pp. 44-7.
Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 1991, Artist’s Books – The Catalogue, Grahame Galleries and Editions, 1991. p. 3.
Guest, Tim (ed.) and Celant, Germano 1981, Books by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto, p. 81.
Jamar, Jos 2001, Complete Graphic Work and Books, Galerie Jamar, Antwerp. pp. 102-5.
Lailach, Michael 2005, Printed Matter: Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin. p. 100.
Moeglin-Delcroix, Anne, Dematteis, L, Maffei, G & Rimmaudo, A, 2004,guardare/raccontre/pensare/conservare (looking. telling. thinking. collecting) four direction of the artist’s book from the Sixties to the present, Casa del Mantegna, Mantova, Edizioni Corraini. p.153.
Nobis, Norbert & Meyer, Werner 1996, Catalogue of the Editins Prints and Books, Canz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit. pp. 70-1.

Collection: Centre for the Artist Book, grahame galleries + editions[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”7124″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”kalium_lightbox”][/vc_column][/vc_row]