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Main Title

The big archive : art from bureaucracy

Author(s)

Spieker, Sven

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2017

Collation

xiii, 219 page : illustrations
23 cm

ISBN

9780262533577

Dewey Class

709.04

Contents

Sixteen Ropes: Ilya Kabakov -- Introduction -- 1881: Matters of provenance (picking up after Hegel) -- Freud's files: Sigmund Freud -- 1913: "Du hasard en conserve": Duchamp's anemic archives: Marcel Duchamp -- 1924: the bureaucracy of the unconscious (early surrealism): André Breton, Max Ernst, Le Corbusier -- Around 1925: the body in the museum: Eli Lissitzky, Sergei Eisenstein -- 1970-2000: archive, database, photography: Hans-Peter Feldmann, Susan Hiller, Gerhard Richter, Walid Raad, Boris Mikhailov -- The archive at play: Michael Fehr, Andrea Fraser, Susan Hiller, Sophie Calle -- Epilogue / Thomas Demand.

Language

English

Subject

Archives in art
Art, Modern -- 20th century

BRN

10507

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