EDMUND DE WAAL | AN ARCHIVE

EDMUND DE WAAL | AN ARCHIVE
Edmund de Waal

Year: 2025
Binding: Softcover
Language: English
Pages: 250
Size: 122 x 160 mm
ISBN: 978-84-1274-931-1

Edmund de Waal has created a book about archives that is itself archival, a gathering together of his reflections on archives from over a decade in chronological order. The book is also cyclical, it starts in Odessa in 2009 and ends in Paris in 2021 encountering his family archives in both places. In-between there are his responses to the archives of poets and artists and places he loves.

An Archive offers the opportunity to read texts by de Waal originally included in previous publications that are no longer available to the reader. The effort to put together all this material is not only an archival work but also an essay on the topic that offers different approaches to the definition and the experimentation of an archive by the viewer or its creator.