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- Title
The Pillow Book of Chris Marker: The Arrangement and Description of Personal Archives.
- Authors
SKRYPNYK, MARTIN
- Abstract
This article explores how an archivist dealing with the personal archives of an artist might be informed by that artist's work in arranging and describing the fonds. Chris Marker, the French multimedia artist who left his archives to the Cinémathèque française in Paris, is the starting point and thread of this discussion. Through a review of archival literature, the author draws upon issues common to the arrangement and description of personal archives, and creates linkages between these issues and Marker's own work, specifically his film Sans soleil, and Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book, one of the literary references in the film. By speculating about how an archivist would attempt to deal with the "ordered clutter" of Marker's archives through research, observation, and archival methodology, the author explores key questions surrounding provenance, original order, and arrangement and description in the digital realm. Also considered are the various roles an archivist must take on in order to make personal archives available for future research.
- Subjects
ARCHIVISTS; PERSONAL archives; ARTISTS; MARKER, Chris, 1921-2012; CINEMATHEQUE francaise; SANS Soleil (Film); PILLOW Book, The (Book)
- Publication
Archivaria, 2015, Issue 79, p159
- ISSN
0318-6954
- Publication type
Article