num_pages: 424
description: Available for the first time outside of the 2005 two-volume set, 50 Years of Documenta 1955-2005 , this reprint of Volume One, Archive in Motion has been much in demand on its own. In 1955 the German city of Kassel held the first Documenta, right alongside the National Garden Festival. No one imagined that the fair would develop into one of the most significant recurring global art exhibitions in the world. In the years since, each of Documenta's 11 iterations has been unique, with its own aims and atmosphere, and their combined record has come to reflect the last half-century's diverse artistic and curatorial approaches, philosophies and forms of presentation, as well as a broad array of political and social currents. In 2005, Steidl published the historically significant two-volume set, 50 Years of Documenta . Volume one of the set, Archive in Motion , is reprinted here as its own record of the history and the phenomenon of Documenta. Its richly illustrated review of 50 years of art in Kassel, and of those works that made history, is accompanied by essays on each previous exhibition and young artists' responses to material from the Documenta archives.
language: English
title: Archive in Motion: 50 Jahre/Years Documenta 1955-2005
titlecomplete: Archive in Motion: 50 Jahre/Years Documenta 1955-2005
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Steidl & Documenta, Kassel