"Contemporary art constantly requires the construction of new lineages, new histories, to render it critically intelligible. The idea of the archive is currently at the centre of such activities. This anthology offers an illuminating mix of texts, interlacing analysis with artists' writings... and a useful antidote to sentimentalizations of the past." Peter Osborne , Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, and editor of Conceptual Art
Charles Merewether is an art historian and writer on contemporary
and postwar art who has taught at universities in the United
States, Central and South America, and Australia. Collections
Curator at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles from 1994 to
2004, he is Artistic Director and Curator for the 2006 Sydney
Biennale.
Michel Foucault (1926-84) is widely considered to be one of the
most influential academic voices of the twentieth century and has
proven influential across disciplines.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the twentieth century's most
important artists and cultural icons.
Giorgio Agamben is one of the leading figures in Italian
philosophy. He is the author of Homo Sacer- Sovereign Power and
Bare Life; Remnants of Auschwitz- The Witness and the Archive;
Profanations; The Signature of All Things- On Method (the last
three published by Zone Books), and other books.
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), an enormously influential philosopher,
theoretician, critic, and deconstructionist, is the author of Of
Grammatology, The Post Card- From Socrates to Freud and Beyond,
Aporias, and many other books.
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art
in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard
University and an editor of October magazine. He is the author of
Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry- Essays on European and
American Art from 1955 to 1975 (MIT Press) and other books.
Margarita Tupitsyn, an independent scholar and curator, is the
author of Moscow Vanguard Art 1922-1992. Her curatorial projects
include the Russian Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennial and
Rodchenko and Popova- Defining Constructivism (Tate Modern, London,
MNCARS, Madrid, 2009-2010).
Thomas Hirschhorn (b. 1957) is a Swiss artist known for large
sculptures and ambitious projects, often constructed of everyday,
makeshift materials.
Charles Merewether is an art historian and writer on contemporary
and postwar art who has taught at universities in the United
States, Central and South America, and Australia. Collections
Curator at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles from 1994 to
2004, he is Artistic Director and Curator for the 2006 Sydney
Biennale.
Hal Foster is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology
at Princeton University and the author of Prosthetic Gods (MIT
Press) and other books.
Charles Merewether is an art historian and writer on contemporary
and postwar art who has taught at universities in the United
States, Central and South America, and Australia. Collections
Curator at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles from 1994 to
2004, he is Artistic Director and Curator for the 2006 Sydney
Biennale.
"Contemporary art constantly requires the construction of new lineages, new histories, to render it critically intelligible. The idea of the archive is currently at the centre of such activities. This anthology offers an illuminating mix of texts, interlacing analysis with artists' writings... and a useful antidote to sentimentalizations of the past." Peter Osborne , Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, and editor of Conceptual Art " The Archive is a collection of pivotal essays on the role of archives in modern art and history... The book"s playful design employs pull quotes resembling children"s lettering, street-art manifestos or eye exams. One such is from Walter Benjamin"s essay: "A Short History of Photography," showing the inspirational potential f archival material: "Utrillo painted his fascinating views of Paris not from life but from picture postcards." Susan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times
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