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Author Alphen, Ernst van, author

Title Staging the archive : art and photography in the age of new media / Ernst van Alphen
Published London : Reaktion Books, 2014
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Contents Introduction -- Emergence -- Storage -- Listing -- Classification -- Administration -- Depletion -- Reanimation
Summary "Staging the archive: art and photography in the age of new media is dedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive, demonstrating the ways in which such archival artworks probe the possibilities of what art is and what it can do. Through a variety of media, methodologies and perspectives, the artists surveyed here also challenge the principles on which the notions of organization, evidence and documentation are built. The book shows how artists have, over recent decades, read the concept of the archive against the grain, questionning not only what the archive is and can be but what materials, images or ideas can be archived. Ernst van Alphen explores the work of artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Boltanski, Fiona Tan, and Sophie Calle, writers including Georges Perec and film-makers such as Alain Resnais and Péter Forgács. Staging the Archive reveals how modern and contemporary artists have used and contested the notion of the archive to establish new relationships to history, information, data
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Archives in art.
Photography, Artistic.
Art -- Archival resources
New media art.
Archival materials.
art photography.
ART -- History -- General.
Archival materials
Archives in art
Art -- Archival resources
New media art
Photography, Artistic
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781780234144
1780234147