by Sven Spieker · MIT Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780262195706
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«The Big Archive» is Sven Spieker's essay on the archive in modern art, published by MIT Press in hardcover (219 pages, in English).
Spieker analyzes the archive as a bureaucratic apparatus and as a key element of twentieth-century modernism. He moves from Duchamp's 'ready-mades' to photographs by Susan Hiller and Gerhard Richter, and links archival art with media such as the typewriter, the telephone, the telegraph and film.
Published in 2008, its subtitle is «Art from Bureaucracy»; it includes bibliographic references (pages 195-215) and an index.
For readers interested in contemporary art, archive theory and visual studies.
