The Archive of fine arts is the largest specialized collection of documents in the Czech Republic focused on Czech and Slovak art. Its aim is to collect and make accessible materials about artists and art-related events, and it employs the unique database abART to provide information to both experts and the general public.
Archive of fine arts
The Archive of Fine Arts athers, preserves, compiles and makes available documents and information about contemporary – in particular Czech and Slovak art. abART is a database based on the atomisation of data (breaking information down to its smallest possible constituent parts) and its universal interconnection. All the elements entered under different categories (person, group, institution/place, event, document, concept) can be regarded from various angles in abART. abART does not take information in mechanically.
It always refers to the source, which for now is in most cases its own archive. The Archive should become the guarantor of and designer of new authorial records (database of national authorities at the National Library of the Czech Republic) in the fine arts field. The Archive receives long-term support from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and in 2011 received a grant from the City of Prague.
It always refers to the source, which for now is in most cases its own archive. The Archive should become the guarantor of and designer of new authorial records (database of national authorities at the National Library of the Czech Republic) in the fine arts field. The Archive receives long-term support from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and in 2011 received a grant from the City of Prague.
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