Title & Author:

The archive / edited by Charles Merewether.

Publication:

London : Whitechapel ; Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2006]
©2006

Description:

207 pages ; 21 cm.

Series:

Documents of contemporary art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index.
A note upon the mystic writing-pad, 1925 / Sigmund Freud -- Research and presentation of all that remains of my childhood 1944-1950, 1969 / Christian Boltanski -- The historical a priori and the archive, 1969 / Michel Foucault -- The philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and back again), 1975 / Andy Warhol -- The man who never threw anything away, c. 1977 / Ilya Kabakov -- The archive and testimony, 1989 / Giorgio Agamben -- Working through objects, 1994 / Susan Hiller -- Survival : ruminations on archival lacunae, 2002 / Renée Green -- A short history of photography, 1931 / Walter Benjamin -- Archives, documents, traces, 1978 / Paul Ricoeur -- The body and the archive, 1986 / Allan Sekula -- Archive fever, 1995 / Jacques Derrida -- Interview with Jürgen Harten and Katharina Schmidt, 1972 / Marcel Broodthaers -- Gerhard Richter's Atlas : the anomic archive, 1993 / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- Against the camera, for the photographic archive, 1994 / Margarita Tupitsyn -- The model of the sciences, 1997 / Anne Moeglin-Delcroix -- Politics of cultural heritage, 1999 / subREAL (Cãlin Dan and Josif Kiraly) -- Interview with Okwui Enwezor, 2000 / Thomas Hirschhorn -- A language to come : Japanese photography after the event, 2002 / Charles Merewether -- "The camera made me do it" : Nicole Jolicoeur, female identity and troubling archives, 2004 / Patricia Levin and Jeanne Perrault -- An archival impulse, 2004 / Hal Foster -- From enthusiasm to the creative commons : interview with Anthony Spira, 2005 / Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska -- A triptych (abc), 1976-80 / Eugenio Dittborn -- Archives of the fallen, 1997 / Charles Merewether -- The Rani of Sirmur : an essay in reading the archives, 1985, 1999 / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- First information report, 2003 / Raqs Media Collective -- Archigraphia : on the future of testimony and the archive to come, 2002 / Dragan Kujundzic -- The secrets file, 2002 / the Atlas Group Archive -- The operator # 17 file, 2000 / the Atlas Group Archive -- Let's be honest, the rain helped, 2004 / the Atlas Group -- Photographic documents : excavation as art, 2006 / Akram Zaatari -- Sans titre/untitled : the video installation as an active archive, 2006 / Jayce Salloum.

Summary:

"This anthology of key writings by influential artists and theorists explores ways in which the archive has become central in visual culture's investigations of history, memory, testimony and identity"--Back cover.
"The significance of the archive in modernity and in contemporary art; writings by Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Hal Foster, and others, and essays on the archival practice of such artists as Gerhard Richter, Christian Boltanski, Renée Green, and The Atlas Group. In the modern era, the archive--official or personal--has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. The archive has thus emerged as a key site of inquiry in such fields as anthropology, critical theory, history, and, especially, recent art. Traces and testimonies of such events as World War II and ensuing conflicts, the emergence of the postcolonial era, and the fall of communism have each provoked a reconsideration of the authority given the archive--no longer viewed as a neutral, transparent site of record but as a contested subject and medium in itself. This volume surveys the full diversity of our transformed theoretical and critical notions of the archive--as idea and as physical presence--from Freud's "mystic writing pad" to Derrida's "archive fever"; from Christian Boltanski's first autobiographical explorations of archival material in the 1960s to the practice of artists as various as Susan Hiller, Ilya Kabakov, Thomas Hirshhorn, Renée Green, and The Atlas Group in the present." -- Publisher's website

ISBN:

0262633388 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780262633383 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0854881484 (pbk.)
9780854881482 (pbk.)

Subject:

Archives.
Art archives.
Archival resources.
Museums Collection management.
Records.
Archives artistiques.
Fonds d'archives.
Musées Gestion des collections.
fonds (collections)
collections management.

Added entries:

Merewether, Charles, editor.
Documents of contemporary art series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249908
Call No.: BIB 179444
Status: Available