The Archive
by Andy Warhol, Sigmund Freud, Giorgio Agamben, Christian Boltanski, Hal Foster, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jacques Derrida, Raqs Media Collective, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Ilya Kabakov, Marcel Broodthaers, Paul Ricœur, Allan Sekula, Akram Zaatari, Jeanne Perreault, Eugenio Dittborn, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Renée Green, Margarita Tupitsyn, Charles Merewether, Susan Hiller, Dragan Kujundzic, Neil Cummings, Jayce Salloum, Marysia Lewandowska, Calin Dan, Josif Kiraly, Patricia Levin, Atlas Group
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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, Ren�e 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, Ren�e Green, and The Atlas Group in the present.Not for sale in the UK and Europe.
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