Staging the Archive

Dedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive, this book demonstrates the ways in which such 'archival artworks' probe the possibilities of what art is and what it can do.

Ernst van Alphen is Professor of Literary Studies at Leiden University in The Netherlands. His previous publications include Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self (Reaktion, 1992), Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought (2005) and Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature and Theory (1998).