Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard [A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance]

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In 1963, Broodthaers abandoned poetry to focus on visual art. In this work, he makes reference to this transition by revealing the graphic, nearly abstract quality of the Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé’s canonical poem of the same title. On the cover, Broodthaers exchanged the names of Mallarmé and his publisher with his own and those of his galleries, and the word poéme with image. Inside, multiple black bars, whose dimensions and arrangement correspond exactly to that of Mallarmé’s text in the 1914 edition, are repeated on each page, turning writing into image.

Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard [A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance], Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, Brussels 1924–1976 Cologne), Artist's book

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Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard [A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance], Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, Brussels 1924–1976 Cologne), Artist's book
Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard [A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance], Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, Brussels 1924–1976 Cologne), Artist's book
Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard [A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance], Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, Brussels 1924–1976 Cologne), Artist's book
Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard [A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance], Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, Brussels 1924–1976 Cologne), Artist's book

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