{"product_id":"the-archive-whitechapel-documents-of-contemporary-art-9780262633383","title":"The Archive (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe significance of the archive in modernity and in contemporary art; writings by Sigmund Freud  Michel Foucault  Hal Foster  and others  and essays on the archival practice of such artists as Gerhard Richter  Christian Boltanski  Rene Green  and The Atlas Group. In the modern era  the archiveofficial or personalhas 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 archiveno 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 archiveas idea and as physical presencefrom Freuds \"mystic writing pad\" to Derridas \"archive fever\"; from Christian Boltanskis first autobiographical explorations of archival material in the 1960s to the practice of artists as various as Susan Hiller  Ilya Kabakov  Thomas Hirshhorn  Rene Green  and The Atlas Group in the present. Not for sale in the UK and Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280133382197,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262633388","price":101.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262633383.jpg?v=1780622296","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-archive-whitechapel-documents-of-contemporary-art-9780262633383","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}