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BROODTHAERS Marcel (1924 - 1976)

Marcel Broodthaers (January 28, 1924 ? January 28, 1976) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works. He was born in Brussels, Belgium, where he was associated with the Groupe Surréaliste-revolutionnaire from 1945 and dabbled in journalism, film, and poetry. After spending 20 years in poverty as a struggling poet[1], he performed the symbolic act of embedding fifty unsold copies of his book of poems Pense-Bête in plaster, creating his first art object. That same year, 1964, for his first exhibition, he wrote a famous preface for the exhibition catalogue;