„Изкуствознанието: архиви и перспективи“
Art Studies: Archives and Perspectives

Summary/Abstract: One of the accents in the program of the celebrations - 60 Years Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS), organized by the Institute of Art Studies, at BAS, was the exhibition Art Studies: Archives and Perspectives (Dec. 8-12, 2008, in Archive’s hall at the State Agency Archives). There were presented diverse archival and library collections of all arts. Among them – materials from Music-folkloric Archives at the Institute, such as: fieldwork transcriptions by first collectors of Bulgarian folklore (part of archival collections of the composer Dobri Hristov and the folklorist Rajna Kacarova); valuable books from the funds of the library, presented in historical perspective: first musicological and art-study publications, an unique copy of a Catholic bible, fundamental collections of the Institute, first issues of the periodicals Bulgarian Musicology and Problems of the Art. Displayed were also: the newest publications of Institute’s collaborators; audio and visual equipment from the dawn of the fieldwork musicology; gramophone records and recording tapes; photographs, documenting various events related to the Institute’s history and contemporaneity; the process of full digitalization of archive’s as well as other funds, which by including them in the multi-media data base assures full access to valuable historical inheritance.

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