Department of Eagles (David–Ingres–Wiertz–Courbet) (Département des Aigles [David–Ingres–Wiertz–Courbet])

With the help of industrial craftsmen, in 1968 Broodthaers began making thin, vacuum-formed plastic signs of the kind typically used for advertising. The artist, who had begun his career as a poet, used the medium to create what he termed Poèmes indu...