232 pp. with B/W and full-colour plates. Lower corners lightly bumped and cover lightly rubbed. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario from January 26 to March 26, 2006. ". a quasi-fictional correspondence with the artist Fiona Tan. It departs from interpretations of post-colonial identity issues in her work to trace the implications of the archival housing of photographs and moving images. By way of a detour through Siegfried Kracauer`s writing on photography and Jacques Derrida`s writing on the Freudian impression, we witness - right before our eyes - the disintegrative and destructive effect of photography on the archive.".

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Title

Disassembling the Archive: Fiona Tan

Publisher

Art Gallery of York University

Publication Date

2008

Language

English

ISBN 10

0921972458

ISBN 13

9780921972457

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Very Good

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No Jacket

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Exceptionally well designed, engaging and mysterious, Disassembling the Archive is a quasi-fictional correspondence with the Amsterdam-based, Indonesia-born artist Fiona Tan. It departs from interpretations of postcolonial identity issues in Tan's work to trace the implications of the archival housing of photographs and moving images. By way of a detour through Siegfried Kracrauer's writing on photography and Jacques Derrida's writing on the Freudian impression, we witness--right before our eyes--the disintegrative and destructive effect of photography on the archive. This volume is printed on several papers and features full bleed video stills, mesmerizing archival portraits of young Asian girls in identical uniforms and a long text in the form of philosophical letters "from" Philip Monk--who curated the 2006 exhibition at Toronto's Art Gallery of York University on which this volume is based.

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Philip Monk is Director of the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto.

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