Main entry:

Spieker, Sven, author.

Title & Author:

The big archive : art from bureaucracy / Sven Spieker.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2008]
©2008

Description:

xiii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215) and index.
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 Eisenstein -- 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.
Dust jacket.

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. Dadaists, constructivists, and Surrealists favored discontinuous, nonlinear archives that resisted hermeneutic reading and ordered presentation. Spieker argues that the use of archives by such contemporary artists as Hiller, Richter, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Walid Raad, and Boris Mikhailov responds to and continues this attack on the nineteenth-century archive and its objectification of the historical process. 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."--Publisher's description.

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ISBN:

9780262195706 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262533577 (paperback)
026253357X (paperback)
0262195704

Subject:

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941.
Hiller, Susan, 1940-
Richter, Gerhard, 1932-
Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Breton, André 1896-1966
Calle, Sophie 1953-
Duchamp, Marcel 1887-1968
Ernst, Max 1891-1976
Feldmann, Hans-Peter 1941-
Fraser, Andrea 1965-
Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939
Hiller, Susan 1940-2019
Lisickij, Lazarʹ M. 1890-1941
Mychajlov, Borys 1938-
Raad, Walid 1967-
Richter, Gerhard 1932-
Ėjzenštejn, Sergej M. 1898-1948
Hiller, Susan
Art, Modern 20th century.
Collective memory.
Art and history.
Archives in art.
Art, Modern.
Art 20e siècle.
Mémoire collective.
Art et histoire.
Archives dans l'art.
20.30 history of art: general.
Archiv
Bürokratie
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Kunst
Ästhetik
Beeldende kunsten.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Archieven.
Konst historia 1900-talet.
Modern konst.
Kollektivt minne.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278483
Call No.: BIB 214050
Status: Available