Art From Bureaucracy
by Sven Spieker
- Author(s)
- Sven Spieker
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 2017
- Scope
- 220 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780262533577
Dadaists, constructivists, and Surrealists favored discontinuous, nonlinear archives that resisted hermeneutic reading and ordered presentation. Spieker argues that the use of archives by such contemporary artists as Hiller, Richter, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Walid Raad, and Boris Mikhailov responds to and continues this attack on the nineteenth-century archive and its objectification of the historical process. 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.
- Person as subject
- Susan Hiller, Gerhard Richter, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Walid Raad, Boris Mikhailov, Andrea Fraser, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchemp, André Breton, Le Cornbusier, El Lissitzky, Sergei Eisenstein, Michael Fehr, Sophie Calle
- Keywords
- photography
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 3: Archieven en collecties
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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