The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy by Sven Spieker

The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy

Sven Spieker

219 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

art challenging informative slow-paced

Description

The archive as a crucible of twentieth-century modernism and key for understanding contemporary art.The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain l...

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