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The Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy

The Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy

Spieker, Sven

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryArt History

ISBN10: 026253357X
ISBN13: 9780262533577
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 3 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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 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.

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