Charles Merewether
Autor de The Archive
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: photo Wendy McDougall
Obras de Charles Merewether
Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970 (Getty Trust Publications:… (2007) 21 copias
A marginal body : the photographic image in Latin America = Un cuerpo marginal : la imagen fotografica en América… (1987) 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
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También Puede Gustarte
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 18
- Miembros
- 213
- Popularidad
- #104,444
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 15
- Idiomas
- 2
In the modern era, the archive―official or personal―has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. The archive has thus emerged as a key site of inquiry in such fields as anthropology, critical theory, history, and, especially, recent art. Traces and testimonies of such events as World War II and ensuing conflicts, the emergence of the postcolonial era, and the fall of communism have each provoked a reconsideration of the authority given the archive―no longer viewed as a neutral, transparent site of record but as a contested subject and medium in itself.
This volume surveys the full diversity of our transformed theoretical and critical notions of the archive―as idea and as physical presence―from Freud's "mystic writing pad" to Derrida's "archive fever"; from Christian Boltanski's first autobiographical explorations of archival material in the 1960s to the practice of artists as various as Susan Hiller, Ilya Kabakov, Thomas Hirshhorn, Renée Green, and The Atlas Group in the present.… (más)