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A Voyage on the North Sea

Broodthaers, Marcel

London. Petersburg Press. 1973
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Marcel Broodthaers' artist book that examines in minute, repetitive detail a painting of a ship and a photograph of a boat. The pages are uncut at the fore-edge, and the artist's text admonishes Before cutting the pages the reader had better beware of the knife he will be wielding for the purpose.
English language edition limited to 1,000 copies. This one of 100 deluxe copies, numbered and signed with artist's initials in the book, and accompanied by the 4'15'' silent 16mm colour film, Un Voyage en Mer du Nord, in a blue film tin with printed title label.
The film was based on the original copy of another of Broodthaers' films Analyse d’une Peinture, with additional material made up of photographs taken by the artist of yachts at sea in the port of Ostend. The film is presented as a book, with one page for the general title and page headings on each take or set of sequences: “Page 1”, “ Page 2”, and so on. Slides were made in preparation for the book, and the film itself is presented as a slide show, being composed of nothing more than simple takes, with no action or camera movements. 
[Ref. Jamar - Marcel Broodthaers - Complete Graphic Work & Books 39; M. Werner - Marcel Broodthaers, Catalogue of the books 1957-1975, no. 16a].
38 pp. 8vo. 38 colour & monochrome offset plates. Text and images printed on uncut pages. Wrappers.
#44751

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