Staging the Archive
Staging the Archive
Art and Photography in the Age of New Media
by Ernst van Alphen

Author(s)
Ernst van Alphen
Publication
[s.l.] : Reaktion Books, 2014
Scope
302 Pages, illustrated, 20 cm.
ISBN
9781780233727

Dedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive, Staging the Archive demonstrates 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. Exploring the works of Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, Fiona Tan, and Sophie Calle, among others, Van Alphen reveals how modern and contemporary artists have used and contested the notion of the archive to establish new relationships to history, information, and data.


Person as subject
Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, Fiona Tan, and Sophie Calle, …[et al]
Keywords
various disciplines , archives
Location
Cabinet 11 - 3: Archieven en collecties
Remarks
Incl. bibliographical references and Index.