The Art Metropole Collection
We are pleased to announce that the Art Metropole Collection database is available on the internet:
bibcat.gallery.ca:81/search
Search the Art Metropole Collection here.
A complete chronological history of Art Metropole's Publications and Events (from 1971) has been lovingly compiled and is available online as a PDF. As well, a complete graphic history of the organization has been published as a PDF Catalogue: EVIDENCE OF THIRTY YEARS ±: A timeline of Art Metropole's history to 2004. Art Metropole, 2008.
The Art Metropole Collection preserves the artistic production and
documentary evidence of the conceptual art movement in Canada and
internationally, chiefly from the 1960s onwards.
The database, which includes 12,600 records for the material in the
collection, and over 8,000 artists' names, has been set up in the same
software as the main catalogue of the Library and Archives. Searching is
chiefly by artist and title, and the results of these searches can be
limited by other parameters such as year of publication, document type,
etc. Keyword searches, covering names of authors, designers and
materials, are also possible.
The database does not account for, at the item level, a significant body of material in archival fonds (e.g. the General Idea fonds, David Buchan fonds, Ray Johnson mail art, and Art Metropole fonds, although finding aids have been prepared for this material), and in documentation files (on, for example, Canadian artist-run centres). Online links to the finding aids for the archival fonds, however, are listed below.
For more information about the Art Metropole Collection, click
here.
http://national.gallery.ca/english/library/biblio/ngc005.html
View the finding aid for Art Metropole's institutional records - together with an archive of mail art
http://national.gallery.ca/english/library/biblio/ngc003.html
View the finding aid for The General Idea Collection
http://national.gallery.ca/english/library/biblio/ngc002.html
View the finding aid for The David Buchan Archive
http://national.gallery.ca/english/library/biblio/ngc001.html
View the finding aid for Jean Toche Correspondence
http://national.gallery.ca/english/library/biblio/ngc004.html
View the finding aid for Ray Johnson Mail Art
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