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Voyage on the North Sea

Item date(s): 1974 (November 1973 per back cover)

Marcel Broodthaers


Description: This edition is MISSING GB/823 - Duplicate (not same publish date)

Pages: 38pp
Size: 150mm, oblong


Place publication: London
Publisher: Petersburg Press

Additional notes:
French Edition is titled: "Un Voyage en Mer du Nord".

Uncut pages numbered on underside!

Illustrated on page 106 of Artists' Books by Suzanne Swarts; Caldic Collection, 2007.

". . . A book suggest-ing image as function. A book suggesting the text as function. More than a theory, the subject of this proposition refelcts a simple image of the frustration that rules the social condition of today, for example this year. Perhaps I should add that ‘le sujet brille’. 28-’74 M.B." Gilissen p. 46.

15.0 x 17.5 cm, 38 pp, untrimmed, pages numbered verso, printed offset in an edition of 1100 copies, 100 of which numbered in Arabic numerals and signed by the author and accompanied by a 4’15" silent film.

Drucker, Johanna, 1995, The Century of Artists’ Books, Granary Books, NY. pp. 224-5.

Glasmeier, Michael, 1994, Die Bücher der Künstler: publikationen und Editionen seit den sechziger Jahren in Deutschland, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, no. 087 pp. 59-60.

Glissen, Maria 1982, Marcel Broodthaers, Catalogue of Books, ’1957-1975, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Marian Goodman Gallery, NY; Gallerie Gillespie, Laage; Salomon, Paris. pp. 44-7.

Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 1991, Artist’s Books – The Catalogue, Grahame Galleries and Editions, Brisbane. p. 3.

Guest, Tim and Celant, Germano 1981, Books by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto. p. 81.

Jamar, Jos 2001, Complete Graphic Work and Books, Galerie Jamar, Antwerp. 102-5

Moeglin-Delcroix, Anne, Dematteis, L, Maffei, G & Rimmaudo, A, 2004, guardare/raccontre/pensare/conservare (looking. telling. thinking. collecting) four direction of the artist’s book from the Sixties to the present, Casa del Mantegna, Mantova, Edizioni Corraini. p. 153.

Nobis, Norbert and Meyer, Werner 1996, Catalogue of the Editions Prints and Books, Canz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit. pp. 70-1.

Ref: GB/823







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