GERSON DIGITAL – DIGITAL ART HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH
Journal Title: Muzealnictwo - Year 2014, Vol 55, Issue
Abstract
Gerson Digital is the first of the digital monographies published on-line by the Dutch Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Dokumentatie (RKD) in The Hague. The monography is a revised and updated version of the now classical work by Horst Gerson, Ausbreitung und Nachwirkung der holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Haarlem 1942). The scope of the so far published fragment is the chapter on Poland and the influences of the Dutch painting here. Gerson Digital is a very fine and scrupulous piece of editorial and translation work, but its novelty lies rather in the form: it has been published as a digital text interlaced with data (pictures, bibliography, person and artist indexes) that are drawn directly from vast databases which RKD has been building up for the past decades. The text is not therefore enclosed within the borders encircled by the author and his editors, but opens up to other resources. Reader may at some point abandon the text to follow an interesting thread by themselves. Gerson Digital clearly demonstrates the importance of databases for research in art history. Bibliographies, indexes, digital libraries, digital photo collections, and the like should no longer be understood as tools appropriate only for data storage and retrieval but also – and with time maybe primarily – as cornerstones of synthetic interpretation.
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Tomasz Zaucha
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