Dedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive; this book demonstrates the ways in which such lsquo;archival artworksrsquo; probe the possibilities of what art is and what it can do. Through a variety of media; methodologies and perspectives; the artists surveyed here also challenge the principles on which the notions of organization; evidence and documentation are built.The earliest examples of the modern archival artwork were made in the 1930s; but it is since the 1960s that archival principles have increasingly been used by artists to inform; structure and shape their works. This includes practices that consist of archive construction; archaeological investigation; record keeping or the use of archived materials; however; they also interrogate the principles; claims and effects of the archive. Staging the Archive shows how artists read the concept of the archive against the grain; questioning not only what the archive is and can be but what materials; images or ideas can be archived.In this book Ernst van Alphen examines these archival artists and artworks in detail; setting them within their social; political and aesthetic contexts. Exploring the work of Marcel Duchamp; Marcel Broodthaers; Christian Boltanski; Annette Messager; Fiona Tan and Sophie Calle; among others; this book reveals how modern and contemporary artists have used and contested the notion of the archive to establish new relationships to history; information and data.
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