The Big Archive

Download or read book The Big Archive written by Sven Spieker and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spieker considers archivally driven art in relation to changing media technologies - the typewriter, the telephone, the telegraph, film. And he connects the archive to a particularly modern visuality, showing that the avant-garde used the archive as something of a laboratory for experimental inquiries into the nature of vision and its relation to time. The Big Archive offers us the first critical monograph on an overarching motif in twentieth-century art."--BOOK JACKET.