THE CONQUEST OF SPACE/ ATLAS FOR THE USE OF ARTISTS AND THE MILITARY

Is a miniature book by Broodthaers, made after the model of the fifteenth-century incunable. It was originally published in 1975 in an edition of fifty numbered copies, and it is Broodthaers's last book, created shortly before his death, in 1976.The object plays o n language and functions in a manner characteristic of Broodthaers's sense of humor: it refers to the use of atlases by militaries p ursuing territorial conquesta task for which this tiny edition is absurdly unsuitablein order to make artists aware of their own s uch victori...[Read more]