Dr Deborah Schultz, Assistant Professor of Art History, new book published on Broodthaers

31/01/2008

'Dr Deborah Schultz, Assistant Professor of Art History, new book published on Broodthaers'

Deborah Schultz Marcel Broodthaers: Strategy and Dialogue Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007
ISBN 978-3-03910-918-0 pb

A book by Dr Deborah Schultz on Marcel Broodthaers: Strategy and Dialogue makes a significant contribution to an under-researched field. The poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924–76) is widely recognized as a key figure in late 20th century art, however, there have been few publications on his work in English. This book sets out Broodthaers’s strategy for artistic success and examines the dialogue into which he entered with his contemporaries and predecessors in 19th century French poetry, Pop and Conceptual Art, including Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Duchamp and René Magritte. It provides a broad overview of his practice to show how his objects, paintings, films, books and installations interrelated, a focus upon relationships which are also central to Post-structuralist and postmodern theories. The visual qualities of his works combining the material with the poetic, his wit and irony, are examined in relation to his subtle method of questioning and contradicting, defying conventional systems and definitions. Dr Schultz explores the wider institutional and other framing contexts in which things are presented and the geographical context via maps, notions of the voyage, and a sense of place. Institutional critique, the artist’s political position and moral responsibilities in society are discussed by analyzing the responses of Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Joseph Beuys and Hans Haacke to a series of museum events in the early 1970s.

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