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 made use...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262195704
• ISBN13: 9780262195706
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher