MARCEL BROODTHAERS/ INDUSTRIAL POEMS

Broodthaers's work is characterized by a complex exploration of the relationship of text and image. This catalog raisonne is the fir st to include all of the Belgian conceptual artist's industrial poems created between 1968 and 1972. Borrowing from the aesthetics o f industrially manufactured plastic signs, Broodthaers's multi-layered, often enigmatic pictorial poems testify to his interest in t he entanglements of language, punctuation, and symbols. In blurring the boundaries between word and image, painting and object, new levels of...[Read more]