David Houston Jones

Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. Jones considers in particular the widespread nostalgia for 'archival' media such as analogue photographs and film. He analyses the innovative strategies by which such artefacts are incorporated, examining five distinct types of archival practice: the intermedial, testimonial, personal, relational and monumentalist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317679073
• Artikelnr.: 44874222

Autorenporträt

David Houston Jones is Associate Professor of French Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Beckett Effect: the Intermedial Archive 2. The Archival
Testimonial: Miros¿aw Bäka's How It Is 3. The Relational Archive: Silvia
Kolbowski and Eija-Liisa Ahtila 4. The Personal Archive: from Christian
Boltanski to Lifelogging 5. The Archive and the Informational Sublime:
Arnold Dreyblatt. Conclusion.

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Introduction 1. The Beckett Effect: the Intermedial Archive 2. The Archival Testimonial: Miroslaw Balka's How It Is 3. The Relational Archive: Silvia Kolbowski and Eija-Liisa Ahtila 4. The Personal Archive: from Christian Boltanski to Lifelogging 5. The Archive and the Informational Sublime: Arnold Dreyblatt. Conclusion.

Rezensionen

This is a deeply compelling book. David Jones takes us into the quick of archive fever, exploring a range of artworks which exist in or refer to real archives, and allow reflection on our compulsion to archive and the rethinking of memory that theories of the archive allow. In a turn to Pierre Nora this book moves particularly to consider artists' interest in remnants, in material traces and the culture of remains. The illuminating series of chapters, beautifully titled - 'Intermedial', 'Testimonial', 'Relational', 'Personal', 'Sublime' - offers a taxonomy of archivalist practice. The interpretations yielded, of major artworks by Samuel Beckett, Christian Boltanski, Miroslaw Balka, Atom Egoyan and others, are gripping, deft, melancholy and disarming. In fine theoretical readings and measured discussions of the individual projects David Jones shows here, so brilliantly, how archive art engages major current questions of human memory and ethics.

- Emma Wilson, Cambridge University, UK