page_title: Artexte Information Centre
section_title: Collection
hierarchical_section_title: Artexte Information Centre / Collection
caption_attribution_description: La collection du Projet Mobilivre-Bookmobile
context_page_description: Artexte is an independent, federally chartered not-for-profit arts organization in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its principal mandate is to focus on research, interpretation and dissemination initiatives in order to broaden the influence and appreciation of contemporary visual arts. These activities are informed by a significant collection of art documentation and authoritative resources, as well as a network of multidisciplinary partners. Artexte's partnerships and alliances are built with others who also seek to bring attention to the value of documentation produced by the study and practice of contemporary art. Artexte affirms the presence of experimental, innovative and critical components of this field. Its activities touch on all aspects of contemporary visual art from 1965 to today, with special emphasis placed on Quebec and Canada.
  Through its bilingual reference services and research assistance, the Centre provides a user-friendly interface between its collection and researchers from Canada and abroad.
context_section_description: The collection of Artexte Information Centre includes:
  30,000 publications and visual, audio or digital documents
  11,000 documentation files for arts organizations, events, subjects and disciplines, etc.
  4,500 Canadian artists' files
  3,000 non-Canadian artists' files
  Canadian and foreign art periodicals
  special collections of artists' publications including the Mobilivre-Bookmobile Project collection of artists' books, zines, multiples, etc., "A Relatively Small Collection" and "Galerie Largeness"
  The collection of Artexte is non-circulating.
caption: The Mobilivre-Bookmobile Project Collection at Artexte
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