Archives of Modern Art*
HAL FOSTER
The ªarchivesº of my title are not the dusty rooms ® lled with dry documents of academic lore. I mean the term as Foucault used it, to stand for ªthe system that governs the appearance of statements,º that structures the particular expressions of a particular period.1 In this sense an archive is neither af® rmative nor critical per se; it simply supplies the terms of discourse. But this ªsimplyº is no small thing, for if an archive structures the terms of discourse, it also limits what can and cannot be articulated at a given time and place. Here I want to
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