Artexte

The information center Artexte (in English ARTEXTE Information Centers ) is a non-profit making organization and independent (with chartre federal) which has as a principal mandate the documentation of the visual Arts contemporary of 1965 with today, with a Québécois and Canadian specialization.

With an aim of supporting the advance of knowledge, the radiation of the practices in contemporary art and the development of public, Artexte collect, draft and disseminate information according to three modes of intervention: documentation, research and diffusion.

By the means of its bilingual services of reference and assistance to research, the information center provides the interface between its documentary collections and its users, inside as outside the Canada.

History

Founded in 1980 by the historian of art Francine Périnet and the artists Angela Grauerholz and Anne Ramsden, the information center Artexte works initially like bookstore specialized in Canadian and international current art. The organization thus met an essential need with the Quebec and in Canada, that is to say that of up to date information and quality on the topicality of contemporary visual arts. To carry out their objective of diffusion, the founders open an information center with Montreal. They found then the Artextes editions, whose catalog includes/understands a score of titles at present. Lastly, they set up a national service of distribution of catalogs of exposure and independent publications on the contemporary art. In 1997, this service will be yielded at a private company specialized in the distribution of this type of works, ABC Art books Canada.

In 1993, the bookstore moves with the Musée of contemporary art of Montreal. Two years later, Artexte relays its operations of bookseller to the bookstore Olivieri in September 1995 following a model of associative partnership which respects the initial mandate of the information center.

In May 1996, Artexte moves in with 460, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest where it is always located. This removal marks the one new era beginning for the organization and its customers, since it re-registers Artexte in the middle of the network attended by the artists and the researchers in contemporary art.

Collections

The collection of the information center Artexte includes/understands:

: 20000 publications and documents visual, audio, electronic or numerical;
: 10000 files of organizations, events, subjects and disciplines etc;
: 4000 files of Canadian artists;
: 3000 files of foreign artists;
of the Canadian and foreign periodicals;
of the special collections of the publications of artists (of the books of artists, the fanzines, the multiples, etc).

Activities

Residences of research
Edition: Artexte editions; Artexte Information
special Projects: exposures and conferences

References

Danielle Leger, “the information center Artexte: a mandate, and a course, atypical”, History of the libraries of art of Canada , ARLIS Canada, 2006
Danielle Leger, “the information center Artexte: médi (T) ations around the catalog of exposure and the francophonie. ” Art Libraries Newspaper , vol. 21 nº 3, 1996

External bonds

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