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In -depth analysis or close-reading on Marcel Broodthaers's seminal work 'Pense-Bête'

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The inaugural volume of UpClose-a series of publications focusing on key works from the substantial collection of S.M.A.K. (Ghent, Belgium)-discusses one of its most significant sculptures, Marcel Broodthaers’s Pense-Bête, finished in early 1964. One of his first works as a “visual artist,” Pense-Bête features a partially ripped-open package of (now) 44 volumes of Broodthaers’s book of poems, also titled Pense-Bête, embedded in plaster.

The book is organized in half a dozen sections, each of which foreg

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The inaugural volume of UpClose-a series of publications focusing on key works from the substantial collection of S.M.A.K. (Ghent, Belgium)-discusses one of its most significant sculptures, Marcel Broodthaers’s Pense-Bête, finished in early 1964. One of his first works as a “visual artist,” Pense-Bête features a partially ripped-open package of (now) 44 volumes of Broodthaers’s book of poems, also titled Pense-Bête, embedded in plaster.

The book is organized in half a dozen sections, each of which foreg

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