BROODTHAERS (Marcel).

A roll of the dice will never abolish chance - Image. Antwerp, Galerie Wide White Space; Köln, Galerie Michael Werner, 1969, 4° (32,5 x 25 cm), br. (cover defr. and slightly browned, stain on 2nd board, double angular fold). First edition printed at 400 copies. 1/300 copies not numbered on white paper which are not indicated in the justification. On the 2nd cover: "Exemplaire catalog". The text of Mallarmé published by Gallimard in 1914 has been replaced by long black lines in "cache-text". "Broodthaers reduces Un Coup de Dés to its structure - or to put it another way he elevates the structure of the work to a concept worthy of study in its own right, thus acknowledging Mallarmé's own fetishistic attention to this aspect of his work. Rendering the structure concrete, visible, almost tactile, Broodthaers offers a conceptual analysis of Mallarmé's poem across the distance of a nearly a century...It would be hard to imagine a more subtle treatment of Mallarmé's work, or one more capable of demonstrating its essential properties, than this reworked book by Broodthaers. (Johanna Drucker in The Century of Artists' Books, Drucker, Granary, 1995, p. 115-116).