Marcel Broodhaers, Un Coup de dés jamais n 'abolira le hasard, Antwerp: Galerie Wide White Space; Cologne: Galerie Michael Werner, 1969. PAGINATION: 12 unnumbered folios (including flyleaves). PAGE SIZE: 32.5 X 25 cm. Source: A Century of Artists Books, Riva Castleman. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York. Page 164, Plate 114.
MARCEL BROODTHAERS Belgian. 1924-1976
Un Coup de dés jamais n 'abolira le hasard
AUTHOR: Stéphane Mallarmé (French. 1842-1898).
PUBLISHERS: Antwerp: Galerie Wide White Space; Cologne: Galerie Michael Werner, 1969. PAGINATION: 12 unnumbered folios (including flyleaves).
PAGE SIZE: 32.5 X 25 cm.
IMAGES: Photolithographs, in black on transparent paper.
IMAGES SHOWN: Left page, 14.9 x 14.9 cm, irreg., right page,19.1 x 9.2 cm, irreg.
HOUSING: Publisher's ivory wove paper binding.
EDITIONS: Numbered: 100, 90 numbered 1-90 on transparent paper (this copy, no. 17); 10 numbered I-X on aluminum; catalogue: unknown, unnumbered, on ivory wove paper. CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS: Werner 8. Jamar 32.
COLLECTION: The Museum ofModern Art, New York. Purchased with funds given by Howard B. Johnson in honor of Riva Castleman
A poet and Conceptual artist, Broodthaers created museumlike installations and catalogues far them as a way of analyzing the meanings of objects and information. In this
"appropriation" of Mallarmé's poem, well known far its unique typographical rendering, the artist has obliterated the words but left the lines in their original placement and weight, thus emphasizing the historical consciousness of a known object.
Source: A Century of Artists Books, Riva Castleman. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York. Page 164, Plate 114.