Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
by Okwui Enwezor
- Author(s)
- Okwui Enwezor
- Publication
- New York ; Göttingen : International Center of Photography : Steidl Publishers, 2008
- Scope
- 264 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9783865216229
Organized and written by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, and taking its title from Jacques Derrida's book of the same name, Archive Fever gathers leading contemporary artists who use archival materials in the fabrication of their work. As Derrida notes, the Greek etymology of "archive" connotes both "commencement" and "commandment," implying that authority is as much at stake as authenticity. For artists, of course, these imperatives provoke all kinds of exciting opportunities for eccentricity and falsification. The images offer a wide-ranging subject matter, but are linked by the artists' shared meditation on photography and film as the quintessential media of the archive.
- Person as subject
- Tacita Dean, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jef Geys, ...[et al.]
- Keywords
- photography , archives
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 3: Archieven en collecties
- Remarks
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