Jeter du Poisson sur le Marché de Cologne
Broodthaers, Marcel
Köln. Galerie Werner. 1973
Marcel Broodthaers' gnomic and allusive piscatorial artist book.
From the edition limited to 50 numbered copies with manuscript pagination '2' to '11' in sepia ink and manuscript justification to final leaf (rear wrapper) verso: 'Il a été tiré de ces 12 pages, 50 / exemplaires num. et signés. / 17 / 50 M.B. 73.'.
Marcel Broodthaers' artist book, his 'analysis of different forms of the fish in language' was published on the occasion of the projection (note the multilingual pun of the title) of his film 'Le Poisson (Projet pour un film)' or 'Le Poisson est tenace' extracted from his previous film 'Der Fisch'. 'Der Fisch' was shown at Cologne's Galerie Michael Werner in September 1970; 'Le Poisson (Projet pour un film)' was created partly from the out-takes.
Broodthaers' gnomic text ('un poisson / LE POISSON / POURRIT / PAR / LA / TÊTE / TÊTE', i.e. a fish rots from its head head [sic]') and imagery are multilingual and multicontextual and refer to various puns on 'poisson' ('poison', 'poisseux', 'boisson'). The fish too - and its state of decay - serves as a metaphor for the merchandise of Cologne's markets, its art market in particular.
OCLC lists copies at the Vlaamse (Flanders) Erfgoedbibliotheek, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, the Kunst- und Museumbibliothek der Stadt in Cologne, the Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Bibliothèque Kandinsky in Paris and the Tate in London; no copies are detailed for the US although we locate copies at the Getty (two) and Yale. MoMA does not appear to hold an example.
[Ceuleers 38; see 'Marcel Broodthaers: Cinéma', Barcelona, 1989].
From the edition limited to 50 numbered copies with manuscript pagination '2' to '11' in sepia ink and manuscript justification to final leaf (rear wrapper) verso: 'Il a été tiré de ces 12 pages, 50 / exemplaires num. et signés. / 17 / 50 M.B. 73.'.
Marcel Broodthaers' artist book, his 'analysis of different forms of the fish in language' was published on the occasion of the projection (note the multilingual pun of the title) of his film 'Le Poisson (Projet pour un film)' or 'Le Poisson est tenace' extracted from his previous film 'Der Fisch'. 'Der Fisch' was shown at Cologne's Galerie Michael Werner in September 1970; 'Le Poisson (Projet pour un film)' was created partly from the out-takes.
Broodthaers' gnomic text ('un poisson / LE POISSON / POURRIT / PAR / LA / TÊTE / TÊTE', i.e. a fish rots from its head head [sic]') and imagery are multilingual and multicontextual and refer to various puns on 'poisson' ('poison', 'poisseux', 'boisson'). The fish too - and its state of decay - serves as a metaphor for the merchandise of Cologne's markets, its art market in particular.
OCLC lists copies at the Vlaamse (Flanders) Erfgoedbibliotheek, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, the Kunst- und Museumbibliothek der Stadt in Cologne, the Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Bibliothèque Kandinsky in Paris and the Tate in London; no copies are detailed for the US although we locate copies at the Getty (two) and Yale. MoMA does not appear to hold an example.
[Ceuleers 38; see 'Marcel Broodthaers: Cinéma', Barcelona, 1989].
[3 bifolia including wrappers: 6 unnumbered leaves]. 8vo. (210 x 146 mm). Leaf (front wrapper) with title in green and black, verso with manuscript pagination ('2'), following leaves with printed text and illustration recto and verso in black or green and pagination by hand (i.e. '3' to '11') in manuscript throughout, final leaf verso (rear wrapper) with manuscript justification. Loose as issued in original publisher's printed wrappers, titles to front cover in green and black, manuscript justification to rear in sepia ink (see below).
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