Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) was active as a poet and journalist before working as a visual artist.

Poetry

• Minuit, Brussels: George Houyoux, 1960.
• La bete noire, Brussels, 1961.
• Pense-Bete, Brussels, 1964.
• Je m'en lave les mains, Zurich: Seedorn, 1982.
• Statues de Bruxelles, Brussels: Amis du Musee d'Ixelles, 1987. With photographs by Julien Coulommier.

Works

• http://www.ubu.com/film/broodthaers.html
• http://www.ubu.com/historical/broodthaers/
• http://www.ubu.com/sound/broodthaers.html

Artist's books

• Un coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard, 1969.
• Un voyage en mer du nord, 1974.
• selection on moma.org

Writings

• October 42: "Marcel Broodthaers: Writings, Interviews, Photographs", MIT Press, Autumn 1987.
• Collected Writings, ed. Gloria Moure, Barcelona: Poligrafa, Barcelona, 2013, 512 pp. [1]

Catalogues, booklets

• Marcel Broodthaers, ed. Susanne Pfeffer, Kassel: Fridericianum, 2015, 38 pp. Texts by Ann-Charlotte Günzel, Anna Sailer, Nina Tabassomi, Anna Weinreich. (English)
• Marcel Broodthaers, eds. Christophe Cherix and Manuel J. Borja-Villel, New York: Museum of Modern Art, and Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2016, 351 pp. Essays by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Jean-François Chevrier, Thierry de Duve, and Doris Krystof. Retrospective exh. held at MoMA, 14 Feb-15 May 2016; Reina Sofia, 5 Oct 2016-9 Jan 2017; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 4 Mar-11 Jun 2017. [2] [3] [4] (English)

Literature

• Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, "Marcel Broodthaers: Allegories of the Avant-Garde", Artforum, May 1980, pp 52-59.
• Rosalind Krauss, A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, Thames & Hudson, 2000, 64 pp.
• Rachel Haidu, The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers, 1964-1976, MIT Press, 2010. [5]
• Manuel Borja-Villel, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Christophe Cherix, Rachel Haidu, Rosalind Krauss, Trevor Stark, "The Moment of Marcel Broodthaers? A Conversation", October 155 (Winter 2016), pp 111-150