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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 Of The Archive In A Variety Of Ways - From What Spieker Calls Marcel Duchamp's Anemic Archive Of Readymades And El Lissitzky's Demonstration Rooms To The Compilations Of Photographs Made By Such Postwar Artists As Susan Hiller And Gerhard Richter. In The Big Archive, Sven Spieker Investigates The Archive - As Both Bureaucratic Institution And Index Of Evolving Attitudes Toward Contingent Time In Science And Art - And Finds It To Be A Crucible Of Twentieth-century Modernism. Spieker Considers Archivally Driven Art In Relation To Changing Media Technologies - The Typewriter, The Telephone, The Telegraph, Film. And He Connects The Archive To A Particularly Modern Visuality, Showing That The Avant-garde Used The Archive As Something Of A Laboratory For Experimental Inquiries Into The Nature Of Vision And Its Relation To Time. The Big Archive

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Author

Spieker, Sven

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262195706

Category

art

Subjects

History, Art, Arts

Rating

3.78 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14