Art + Archive: Understanding the archival turn in contemporary art (Rethinking Art's Histories) - Hardcover

Callahan, Sara

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ISBN 10: 1526156857 ISBN 13: 9781526156853

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2022

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Art + Archive examines how and why the archive became a hot topic in the artworld at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book connects the artworld's interest in archival terminology to a number of broader historical, technological, academic and philosophical contexts.

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Sara Callahan is an art historian specialising in contemporary art and photography. She works at Stockholm University -- .

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‘Archive’ has been one of the most persistent buzzwords in the international artworld since the turn of the twenty-first century. Art + Archive examines the meaning and function of the notion of the archive in art writing and practices from 1995 to 2015, making a valuable contribution to an under-analysed topic in the field.

The first part of the book outlines key texts about archive art, the interdisciplinary theories these build on and the specific meaning the archive comes to have when brought into the artworld. It shows how writing about archives by Michel Foucault and others lines up with the institutional theory of art established in the 1960s: both highlight the importance of institutional structures and point to a complex set of relations between history and critique. The second part of the book examines how the archive is used to make sense of different conditions and concerns relating to materiality, research, critique, curating and temporality.

Instead of approaching the archive as an already defined conceptual tool for analysing art, Art + Archive rethinks the so-called archival turn, showing how it is deeply embedded in issues relating to social, technological, philosophical and historical contexts.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1526156857
• ISBN 13: 9781526156853
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 364
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar