The Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy

by Sven Spieker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026253357X
• ISBN13: 9780262533577
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher