Marcel Broodthaers: l'homme de lettres et le conquète de l'espace
The contends of this beautiful book were initially intended to be a catalogue published by the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, on the occasion of their Marcel Broodthaers retrospective in 2001. Essays were commissioned, the show was done, installation shots were made, and the entire book was designed and ready to go to print when the Fondation Marcel Broodthaers refused to grant reproduction rights. No solution could be found and so the book was at an impasse.
Enter artist Nico Dockx. Dockx "rescued" the catalogue's contents by taking everything as was but redacting every instance where a reproduction rights-related image of the work of Marcel Broodthaers would have been—just as Broodthaers himself had done with Mallarmé's Un coup de dès jamais n-abolira le hasard.
See also Michael Lobel's Fugitive Artist: The Early Work of Richard Prince, 1974-1977.
Enter artist Nico Dockx. Dockx "rescued" the catalogue's contents by taking everything as was but redacting every instance where a reproduction rights-related image of the work of Marcel Broodthaers would have been—just as Broodthaers himself had done with Mallarmé's Un coup de dès jamais n-abolira le hasard.
See also Michael Lobel's Fugitive Artist: The Early Work of Richard Prince, 1974-1977.