The Archive (Whitechapel
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"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

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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.

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"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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