Marcel Broodthaers

1924–1976

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Biography

Marcel Broodthaers (28 January 1924 – 28 January 1976) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker, and visual artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works.

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Artworks

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Marcel Broodthaers Casserole and Closed Mussels

1964

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Marcel Broodthaers The Farm Animals

1974
Marcel Broodthaers Atlas

1975

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Marcel Broodthaers Daguerre’s Soup

1975
Marcel Broodthaers I Return to Matter, I Rediscover the Tradition of the Primitives, Painting with Egg, Painting with Egg

1966
Marcel Broodthaers Tractatus Logico Catalogicus - Art or the Art of Selling

1972
Marcel Broodthaers Mademoiselle Rivière and Monsieur Bertin

1975
Marcel Broodthaers Paintings

1973

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Features

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Systems art

Loosely describes a group of radical artists working in the late 1960s early 1970s who reacted against art’s traditional focus …
Tate Papers

Two Exhibition-Related Films by Jef Cornelis: Landmark Exhibitions Issue

Koen Brams

This discussion of two films made for television in 1971 by Flemish filmmaker Jef Cornelis brings into relief an underlying …
Tate Etc

Tate Etc. issue 13: Summer 2008

TATE ETC Issue 13 Summer 2008: Visiting and revisiting Art, etcetera; online edition of Tate's magazine
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Esprit Décor: Marcel Broodthaers

Wilfried Dickhoff

In 1975 the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976) made the piece Décor for the ICA, London. A large crab …
Tate Papers

Nothing but the Real Thing: Considerations on Copies, Remakes and Replicas in Modern Art

Lydia Beerkens

Lydia Beerkens. Nothing but the Real Thing: Considerations on Copies, Remakes and Replicas in Modern Art; Tate Papers, no.8
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The legacy of a myth maker: Joseph Beuys

Francesco Bonami

Joseph Beuys is considered by some as the most important of the post-war period – a sculptor, performance artist, teacher …