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A Voyage on the North Sea / Marcel Broodthaers
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FA.SB1.5011
38 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 15 cm
1974
Softcover perfect binding. Offset lithograph Printed. Unopened folded pages. Edition of 1,100.
In connection to an exhibition and film of the same title. Consists of 19th and 20th century nautical imagery. This is an example of hybrid art editions Broodthaers created called "book-films."
"Both book and film components of A Voyage on the North Sea deliver a befuddling, progress-defying narrative, pairing images of an amateur’s 19th century painting of fishing vessels with photographs of a 20th century sailboat. The film is structured like a book with 15 paginated titles interspersed between static images of the boats while the layout of the book, on the other hand, is structured like the comparative grid of the art historian’s slide show. Broodthaers’ complex dialogue between painting, photograph, book and film plays hide-and-seek with the original, exploring a frustrating journey through the conditions of art in the age of mechanical reproduction." - Specific Object
In connection to an exhibition and film of the same title. Consists of 19th and 20th century nautical imagery. This is an example of hybrid art editions Broodthaers created called "book-films."
"Both book and film components of A Voyage on the North Sea deliver a befuddling, progress-defying narrative, pairing images of an amateur’s 19th century painting of fishing vessels with photographs of a 20th century sailboat. The film is structured like a book with 15 paginated titles interspersed between static images of the boats while the layout of the book, on the other hand, is structured like the comparative grid of the art historian’s slide show. Broodthaers’ complex dialogue between painting, photograph, book and film plays hide-and-seek with the original, exploring a frustrating journey through the conditions of art in the age of mechanical reproduction." - Specific Object