Daguerre’s Soup
Marcel Broodthaers
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Date:1975 -
Style:Conceptual Art -
Genre:figurative -
Media:photography, screenprint, paper -
Location:Tate Britain, London, UK
Daguerre’s Soup
Marcel Broodthaers
The title of this work refers to Louis Daguerre, one of the nineteenth-century inventors of photography. The soup concocted in his name is represented by a chart of its ingredients. However, these ingredients are themselves photographs, whether of 'real' vegetables or of fish made of tissue paper. A label presents the work as if it were a museum exhibit, implying that it belongs to the distant past, perhaps even to Daguerre's era. Although the soup can never be eaten, the photographic images survive in a state of pristine freshness long after 'real' vegetables would have rotted away.
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