The reference library for twentieth-century art

Thousands of pages from rare works.
One search is all it takes.

GargantuArt digitizes, indexes and opens up a unique collection of historical documentation. A name, a manufactory, a motif: the exact page, within seconds.

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And the collection grows every week.

GargantuArt was born from a simple observation: most of the knowledge on twentieth-century art sleeps in bound volumes, scattered and never indexed. We digitize them page by page and make them searchable, so that knowledge becomes accessible again to researchers, collectors and art-market professionals.

The method

From bound volume to the exact page

I.

Digitized

Every volume is digitized page by page, in high definition, from identified collections and recognized publications.

II.

Indexed

The text of every page is extracted and indexed: every name, every manufactory, every notion becomes searchable.

III.

Found

One search takes you straight to the exact page, with no more leafing through entire volumes.

The catalogue

Two ways to read, one standard

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Historical collection

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century journals, catalogues and specialized works you won’t find anywhere else. One subscription opens the entire collection: online reading, full-text search, bookmarks.

Buy per title

Bookshop

Today's references, offered by their publishers and searchable in the same engine. Buy each work individually and read it without limits.

One month free

One month to explore the historical documentation in full.

Create an account and the collection opens entirely: every journal, every page, searchable in full text. Your searches, your bookmarks and your library stay with you afterwards.

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