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AICARC and the Archives of Modern Art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Hans-Jörg Heusser
Hans-Jörg Heusser*
Affiliation:
Swiss Institute for Art Research, Waldmannstrasse 6/8, CH-8024 Zürich, Switzerland
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Abstract

Since the 1960s AICA, the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art, has been increasingly concerned with the primary resources on which research depends. In particular, access to archival material was felt to be necessary in order to counter a dominant, highly selective, ‘modernist’ interpretation of 20th century art, with a more objective, comprehensive, and thoroughly researched history of the period covering all countries. The AICARC-Bulletin, founded in 1974, is devoted to primary sources, archives and documentation centres, archival techniques, and the ‘documentary’ approach to art, in relation to the art of this century.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , 1986 , pp. 4 - 8
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1986

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1. Heusser, H.J.: A Portrait of Sven Sandström, in AICARC-Bulletin 1/1983, p. 4 ff.Google Scholar
2. For a definition of these terms see: Pacey, Philip: ‘AICARC and the IFLA Section of Art Libraries: an agenda for cooperation’, in AICARC-Bulletin 2/1983, p. 26 ff.Google Scholar
3. See, among others: Varnedoe, Kirk: ‘Revision, re-vision, re:vision. The status of Impressionism’, in Arts Magazine, Nov.1974, p68 ff., and Sandler, Irving: ‘Modernism, Revisionism, Pluralism, and Post-Modernism’, in Art Journal, Fall/Winter 1980, p. 345 ff. A survey on the history of this revision is given by Lukas Gloor, Assistant to the Director, Swiss Institute for Art Research, in his dissertation: ‘Von Böcklin zu Cézanne - Die Rezeption des französischen Impressionismus in der deutschen Schweiz’, 1984 (not yet published).Google Scholar
4. For the history of AICARC see: ‘Heusser, H.J.: A Portrait of Sven Sandström, AICARC-Bulletin 1/51983, p.5.Google Scholar
5. Zürich, Kunsthaus: Dreissiger Jahre Schweiz - Ein Jahrzehnt im Widerspruch, Zürich 1981/82 (with detailed catalogue).Google Scholar
6. See also: Heusser, H.J.: ‘Heimatsehnsucht und Katastrophen-angst. Sozio-psychologische Aspekte der schweizerischen Malerei der dreissiger Jahre’, in: exhibition catalogue ‘Dreissiger Jahre Schweiz…’ p.278 ff (see note 5).Google Scholar
7. See also: Varnedoe, Kirk: Revisionism Revisited, in: Art Journal, Fall/Winter 1980, p. 348 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar