Marcel Broodthaers turned from poetry to visual art in 1964 and quickly built a practice from language, found objects, mussel shells, eggs, maps, film and fictional museum structures. His Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, initiated in 1968, staged a museum without a conventional collection in order to question how cultural authority is produced.
Conceptual art; installation; film; poetry; sculpture
Major Works
- 1964Pense-Bête
- 1964Casserole et Moules Fermées
- 1967Moules Sauce Blanche
- 1968–72Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles
- 1972Section des Figures
- 1969Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard
- 1975La Salle Blanche
- 1975Décor: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers
- 1971Ma Collection
- 1969The Pipe You Smoke Is Teeming with Flies
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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