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The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States.More than 20 million items of original material [1] are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
An art manifesto is a public declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of an artist or artistic movement. Manifestos are a standard feature of the various movements in the modernist avant-garde and are still written today. Art manifestos are sometimes in their rhetoric intended for shock value, to achieve a revolutionary effect.
An archivist surveying an unprocessed collection of materials. Surveying is commonly done to determine priorities for preservation and/or conservation of materials before an archivist begins arrangement and description.
The documentation of cultural property is a critical aspect of collections care.As stewards of cultural property, museums collect and preserve not only objects but the research and documentation connected to those objects, in order to more effectively care for them.
Archives FAQs and Facts – blog series by Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives; Elements of a Finding Aid + Annotated Finding Aid – guide by Purdue University Libraries; Archives Unboxed and Revealed: A Guide to Understanding Archives – web exhibit by Archives of Ontario; Personal (Digital) Archiving – guide by the Library of Congress
The lead section on individual works of art should give at least the following information (in roughly this order): Name(s)/title(s) of work, artist, date, type and materials, subject, nation or city of origin, present location. A reference to the style, school or movement it or the artist belongs to is usually appropriate.
The first step in archival processing is to survey the collection. The goal of a survey is to gain an understanding of the originator, determine the context of the creation of the collection, to observe the material's overall size and scope, to ascertain if the collection has access limitations, to locate any existing finding aids submitted with the collection, and to discover any underlying ...
Using the museum's Collections Management Policy, the registrar assesses whether or not the object fits the collection, determines whether the museum has the necessary resources to properly care for the object, and ascertains that provenance can be established to protect the museum from potential litigation.