Institutional Criticism in the Work of Marcel Broodthaers: Towards the Problem of Artistic Practices
Abstract
The presented article examines the work of Marcel Broodthaers, a Belgian conceptual artist, entitled “Décor: Conquest”, created in 1975. The author of the article examines the artist’s manifestation of institutional criticism in the considered project, and analyzes the methods of conceptual art that Broodthaers employs in this work. The text reveals the problem of the role of artistic practices in the examined work in the context of the development of the direction.
Keywords
art of the 20th century; contemporary art; Marcel Broodthaers; Belgian art; conceptual art; conceptualism; institutional criticism;
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