Documentation
The structured recording of what is known about a work: title, dating, material, dimensions, condition, provenance, exhibition and literature references. Documentation turns objects into verifiable entries — the precondition for a catalogue raisonné, for research, and for institutional acquisition.
See also
- Digitisation
- Catalogue raisonné
- Provenance
- Why Artists' Estates Are Not a Storage Problem, but Cultural Capital
- What an Estate Is — and What It Is Not
- Why Estates Need Time
- When does a body of works become a body of work?
- Why every catalogue raisonné begins too late
- Die stille Macht der Provenienz
- Kann man einen Nachlass abgeben?
- Was sichtbar wird, wird wichtig
- The Catalogue Raisonné as Intervention