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Brilliant grey: the color of documentary resources at the Fundación Espigas in Buenos Aires*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2016
Abstract
Grey literature, documentation published outside traditional commercial channels, is not very often taken into account by art librarians in Argentina, judging by searches on online databases. However, experience with grey literature at the Fundación Espigas, the highly specialized Argentinian art information center in Buenos Aires, is changing this point of view. The Center’s database offers access to a great corpus of such publications, especially to ephemera such as private view cards, pamphlets, auction catalogues, catalogues of solo and group exhibitions and posters. This ‘minimal documentary information’ has an important place as a resource, and would prove invaluable for any research project on Argentine art in the future. Indeed this material is not grey but unexpectedly brilliant at providing rich and hidden information.
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Revised version of paper presented at the IFLA Section of Art Libraries workshop at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, 22 August 2004, organized by the Vitruvio network, the Fundación Espigas and the National Museum of Fine Arts Library.