The big archive : art from bureaucracy /

• Main Author: Spieker, Sven (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 2008
• Subjects: Τέχνη, Μοντέρνα > 20ός αιώνας; Συλλογική μνήμη; Τέχνη > Ιστορία; Αρχεία > Τέχνη

Review: "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-obje...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1881 : Matters of provenance (picking up after Hegel)
• Freud's files : Sigmund Freud
• 1913: "Du hasard en conserve" : Duchamp's anemic archives: Marcel Duchamp
• 1924 : the bureaucracy of the unconscious (early surrealism) : André Breton, Max Ernst, Le Corbusier
• Around 1925 : the body in the museum: Eli Lissitzky, Sergei Einstein
• 1970-2000 : archive, database, photography: Hans-Peter Feldmann, Susan Hiller, Gerhard Richter, Walid Raad, Boris Mikhailov
• The archive at play : Michael Fehr, Andrea Fraser, Susan Hiller, Sophie Calle
• Epilogue / Thomas Demand.