David Houston Jones is Associate Professor of French Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, UK

This book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. Jones considers in particular the widespread nostalgia for 'archival' media such as analogue photographs and film. He analyses the innovative strategies by which such artefacts are incorporated, examining five distinct types of archival practice: the intermedial, testimonial, personal, relational and monumentalist.

Introduction 1. The Beckett Effect: the Intermedial Archive 2. The Archival Testimonial: Miroslaw Balka's How It Is 3. The Relational Archive: Silvia Kolbowski and Eija-Liisa Ahtila 4. The Personal Archive: from Christian Boltanski to Lifelogging 5. The Archive and the Informational Sublime: Arnold Dreyblatt. Conclusion.