The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

by Atia Sattar, Theodore Bale, Joseph Campana

Book Overview

The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the conventional archive found in a university, a corporation, or a governmental holding. In form, methodology, and content, The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive offers a counterargument to a more reasoned form of storing and recording the avant-garde...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253018358
• ISBN13: 9780253018359
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 7.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher