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The big archive : art from bureaucracy / Sven Spieker.

The big archive : art from bureaucracy / Sven Spieker.
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ISBN 9780262195706
0262195704
Name Spieker, Sven. author.
Title The big archive : art from bureaucracy / Sven Spieker.
Edition 1st MIT paperback edition.
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
c2008.
Description xiii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes Formerly CIP.
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215) and index.
Contents Sixteen Ropes / Ilya Kabakov -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 1881: Matters of Provenance (Picking up After Hegel) -- 3. Freud's Files -- 4. 1913: "Du Hasard en Conserve": Duchamp's Anemic Archives -- 5. 1924: The Bureaucracy of the Unconscious (Early Surrealism) -- 6. Around 1925: The Body in the Museum -- 7. 1970-2000: Archive, Database, Photography -- 8. The Archive at Play -- Epilogue / Thomas Demand.
Summary "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 Spieker calls Marcel Duchamp's "anemic archive" of readymades and El Lissitzky's Demonstration Rooms to the compilations of photographs made by such postwar artists as Susan Hiller and Gerhard Richter. In The Big Archive, Sven Spieker investigates the archive - as both bureaucratic institution and index of evolving attitudes toward contingent time in science and art - and finds it to be a crucible of twentieth-century modernism.".
"Spieker considers archivally driven art in relation to changing media technologies - the typewriter, the telephone, the telegraph, film. And he connects the archive to a particularly modern visuality, showing that the avant-garde used the archive as something of a laboratory for experimental inquiries into the nature of vision and its relation to time. The Big Archive offers us the first critical monograph on an overarching motif in twentieth-century art."--BOOK JACKET.
Donated by Lorraine;
Subjects Duchamp, Marcel, -- 1887-1968
Lissitzky, El, -- 1890-1941
Hiller, Susan, -- 1940-
Richter, Gerhard, -- 1932-
Archives -- History -- 20th century
Archives
Art, Modern
Art and history
Collective memory
Collective memory
Art and history
Art, Modern -- 20th century
Genre History.
Internet Site http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip081/2007039872.html
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