Research Catalog

Title

Disassembling the archive : Fiona Tan / Philip Monk.

Author

Monk, Philip, 1950-

Publication

[Toronto] : Art Gallery of York University, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tan, Fiona, 1966-
• York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery

Description

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.), ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Alternative Title

Fiona Tan

Subject

• Tan, Fiona, 1966- > Exhibitions
• Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966
• Audio-visual archives > Social aspects > Exhibitions
• Postcolonialism in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "'Disassembling the Archive' is 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 effet of photography on the archive"--Back cover.
• Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of York University, Jan. 26-Mar. 26, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780921972457
• 0921972458

OCLC

• 173248553
• SCSB-10092366

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library