The archive / edited by Charles Merewether.

Date:
2006
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Description

"This anthology of key writings by influential artists and theorists explores ways in which the archive has become central in visual culture's investigations of history, memory, testimony and identity"--Back cover.

Publication/Creation

London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2006.

Physical description

207 pages ; 21 cm.

Contents

A note upon the mystic writing-pad, 1925 / Sigmund Freud -- Research and presentation of all that remains of my childhood 1944-1950, 1969 / Christian Boltanski -- The historical a priori and the archive, 1969 / Michel Foucault -- The philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and back again), 1975 / Andy Warhol -- The man who never threw anything away, c. 1977 / Ilya Kabakov -- The archive and testimony, 1989 / Giorgio Agamben -- Working through objects, 1994 / Susan Hiller -- Survival : ruminations on archival lacunae, 2002 / Renée Green -- A short history of photography, 1931 / Walter Benjamin -- Archives, documents, traces, 1978 / Paul Ricoeur -- The body and the archive, 1986 / Allan Sekula -- Archive fever, 1995 / Jacques Derrida -- Interview with Jürgen Harten and Katharina Schmidt, 1972 / Marcel Broodthaers -- Gerhard Richter's Atlas : the anomic archive, 1993 / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- Against the camera, for the photographic archive, 1994 / Margarita Tupitsyn -- The model of the sciences, 1997 / Anne Moeglin-Delcroix -- Politics of cultural heritage, 1999 / subREAL (Cãlin Dan and Josif Kiraly) -- Interview with Okwui Enwezor, 2000 / Thomas Hirschhorn -- A language to come : Japanese photography after the event, 2002 / Charles Merewether -- "The camera made me do it" : Nicole Jolicoeur, female identity and troubling archives, 2004 / Patricia Levin and Jeanne Perrault -- An archival impulse, 2004 / Hal Foster -- From enthusiasm to the creative commons : interview with Anthony Spira, 2005 / Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska -- A triptych (abc), 1976-80 / Eugenio Dittborn -- Archives of the fallen, 1997 / Charles Merewether -- The Rani of Sirmur : an essay in reading the archives, 1985, 1999 / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- First information report, 2003 / Raqs Media Collective -- Archigraphia : on the future of testimony and the archive to come, 2002 / Dragan Kujundzic -- The secrets file, 2002 / the Atlas Group Archive -- The operator # 17 file, 2000 / the Atlas Group Archive -- Let's be honest, the rain helped, 2004 / the Atlas Group -- Photographic documents : excavation as art, 2006 / Akram Zaatari -- Sans titre/untitled : the video installation as an active archive, 2006 / Jayce Salloum.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index.

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ISBN

  • 0262633388
  • 9780262633383
  • 0854881484
  • 9780854881482