Editing Documenta (section)

== Etymology ==
''Documenta'', an invented word, reflects the intention of the exhibition (in particular of the first Documenta in 1955) to be a [[documentation]] of [[modern art]] which was not available for the German public during the Nazi era. Rumour spread from those close to Arnold Bode that it was relevant for the coinage of the term that the Latin word ''[[Wikt:documentum|documentum]]'' could be separated into ''[[Wikt:doceo|docere]]'' 'teach' and ''[[Wikt:mens#Latin|mens]]'' 'intellect', and therefore thought it to be a good word to describe the intention and the demand of Documenta.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kimpel |first=Harald |url=https://openlibrary.org/books/OL420383M/Documenta |title=Documenta: Mythos und Wirklichkeit |date=1997 |publisher=DuMont |isbn=978-3-7701-4182-1 |location=Köln |ol=420383M |language=De}}</ref>

Each edition of Documenta has commissioned its own visual identity, most of which have conformed to the typographic style of solely using lowercase letters, which originated at the [[Bauhaus]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rawsthorn |first=Alice |date=3 June 2012 |title=A Symbol Is Born |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/arts/04iht-design04.html}}</ref>