Generally speaking, documentation is a forward-looking investment or activity. Artistic documentation, on the other hand, is a tool of immortalization that brings the art object to a period beyond its own time. The texture and the texture of the period in which it was produced, the artistic documentation that carries all the information and data, exhibits different characteristics according to time and trends. Since the day when a series of irregular, aesthetically unconcerned, undisciplined figures were drawn on cave walls and stone surfaces before writing was found, artistic documents have passed through different stages and assumed different forms. In the 20th century, the work of art was freed from the concern of being a decorative element and the work took the form of an integrated interior presentation between the space. In the same century, the transformation of the art space with the postmodern understanding of art, live performances, physical changes in the museum structure, the fact that the ready-made object took its place in the exhibitions as art production led to the redefinition and questioning of artistic documentation and strengthened the understanding of evaluating artistic documentation documents as an art practice. In this context, the aim of this study, which is based on literature knowledge, is to draw attention to the importance of art documentation, the connection it establishes between the past and the present, and its feature as an art practice.