The Big Archive
Art From Bureaucracy
$54.07
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2017
Summary
The archive as a crucible of twentieth-century modernism and key for understanding contemporary art.The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet- these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive’s content stands as a quasi-objective correlative of the “living” past. Twentieth-century art made use of the archive in a variety of ways-from what…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262533577 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026253357X |
| Author: | Sven Spieker |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 486g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 165mm x 17mm |
| Series: | The Big Archive |
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The Big Archive is a wonderfully erudite study of the avant-garde’s anti-archival strategies that aim to subvert the structure and function of its nineteenth-century ‘hybrid institution.’ Spieker’s arguments are often beguilingly clever, at times devilishly so.
– Craig Leonard * Prefix Photo *About The Author
Sven Spieker
Sven Spieker is Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and editor of ARTmargins. His books include The Big Archive- Art from Bureaucracy (MIT Press).
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