# The Big Archive

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- Book: [The Big Archive](https://www.bookquiver.com/sven-spieker/the-big-archive) ([The Big Archive.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sven-spieker/the-big-archive.md))
- Authors: [Sven Spieker](https://www.bookquiver.com/sven-spieker)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6253-357-7
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2017-03-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The archive as a crucible of twentieth-century modernism and key for understanding contemporary art. The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the...