Author: Broodthaers, Marcel.
Title: A voyage on the North Sea.
Description: London : Petersburg Press, November 1973. Paperback. 14.7 x 17.7 cm. Chinese binding with 38 unopened lvs. Leave numbering printed on the inside. With b/w & color illustrations. Covers sl. yellowed & spotted. Upper spine sl. bumped. Else very good. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Unsigned and unnumbered, offset-printed artist's book by Marcel Broodthaers. Based on a film by Broodthaers, illustrated with the pairing of a late-nineteenth-century amateur painting of an archetypal European ship and a twentieth-century photograph of a pleasure boat against a modern urban backdrop. With the text on the nside of the covers : Before cutting the pages the reader had better beware of the knife he will be wielding for the purpose. Sooner than make such a gesture I would prefer him to hold back that weapon, dagger, piece of office equipment which, swift as lightning, might turn into an indefinite sky. It is up to the attentive reader to find out what devilish motive inspired this book's publication. To that end he may make use, if need be, of select reading from today's prolific output. These pages must not be cut. See : Marcel Broodthaers : Catalogue des Livres / Catalogue of Books / Katalog der Bücher, 1957 - 1975 by Maria Gilissen. Köln : Galerie Michael Werner, 1982, pp. 44 - 45.

Keywords: PTA ART, Broodthaers, Marcel (1924-1976)