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RDA allows, perhaps even encourages it; , but related works don't have to be traced in added access points in RDA - sometimes a quoted note may be better. If you do create an analytic, remember, you can't use a |e relationship designator after the creator with a |t title analytic.
Subject headings:
1. H1250#2. 'Art by a single artist' states we should assign additional headings for style or movement, theme, location, and ownership, but I see many variation in this practice. What is recommended?
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A dealer (person or form) who has created a publication showing his wares for sale = catalog.
Although H1360 states: Use Catalogs under artists or crafts persons and families of artists or crafts persons for works listing their art works or crafts that are located in, or available for purchase at, particular institutions or places. Use Catalogs under names of persons and families doing business as sellers under their own names. Also use Catalogs under types of organizations and names of individual corporate bodies for works listing objects, art works, products, etc., located in or available from those organizations -- this subdivision is usually used under a corporate body, not a personal name. Sometimes personal names are turned into corporate bodies however.
ex. from H1250, corporate body:
Catalog of 19th century American Victorian painting on the theme of love in the Corcoran Gallery.../../../../../../../../../../template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=mabibl650&hash=650
650 #0 $a Painting, American $y 19th century $v Catalogs.
650 #0 $a Painting, Victorian $z United States $v Catalogs.../../../../../../../../../../template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=mabibl650&hash=650
650 #0 $a Love in art $v Catalogs.
650 #0 $a Painting $z Washington (D.C.) $v Catalogs.610:$a Corcoran Gallery of Art $v Catalogs.
ex. from H1250, personal name:
Paul Klee's paintings in the Phillips Collection : a catalog.
600 10 $a Klee, Paul, $d 1879-1940 $v Catalogs.
(Sometimes it works better to turn personal names into corporate bodies: Paul Champkins (Firm), where Paul Champkins is functioning as a dealer).
If the resource is describes the private collection, use one of the terms at H1427 (such as --Art collections) as "a free-floating subdivision under the name of the original owner of a private collection, the owner being an individual person, a family, or a corporate body" with the further subdivision --Catalogs.
The subdivision 'exhibitions' trumps the subdivision 'catalogs'.
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In the latter case, how does one handle the cuttering of firms/artists' organizations?
"Special artists, A-Z" is presumed to include named families or firms, even if not specified at each place in the schedule.
While there are variations in how an individual artist may be cuttered, there is some basic consistency in the classification for individual artists. Sometimes they get a whole number like NK942, sometimes they have to be crammed into a cutter such as N7255.S563. There is U.S. and western European bias. As the new countries developed in Europe, there was room only for extended cutters. This means that Slovenian artists don't have the space that British or American artists have. For some countries, there may not even be a breakdown for artists. The consistency generally comes in the range of numbers for a particular place, often a general number followed by some chronological or stylistic numbers, and then followed by cuttering for individual artists. The subdivision table related to how much space is allotted, and that varies.
2. What is the difference between about artist groups, movements, firms? (Sherman referred to this, but Iris Wolley wrote most of this description)
Artist groups are of two types in terms of establishing them in the authority file. First one is an artist group that is informally created by the members and sometimes its name is given to them retrospectively. They don't collectively promote or advertise the work of the group. They cannot be considered corporate bodies. Groups such as this are est. using subject cataloging conventions and reside in the subject file. The qualifier is (Group of artists) an example is the 150:: Blaue Reiter (Group of artists).
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The class numbers for the second type of group are given the same way. Style, if any; country; century, etc. I assume that books on an individual artist in that group would get the class number for special artists within the country class number.
Movement refers to broader concept. See H1250: "The style may be characterized more narrowly as a movement if the particular manner of expression is the result of artists working toward common goals and under the same set of conventions." Examples include: Cubism ; and, Impressionism (Art).
3. When an artist has done work more than one media, should we try to collocate an artist into one media ?or in a general N classification?
LC does not. CUL catalogers should not for the Fine Arts Library. Libraries not primarily serving an art community mayNo.
4. What is the proper use for A4 for exhibition catalogs?
Use Table N6 where indicated in the N schedule. This is not applicable to the TRs for artistic photography. A4 is used for collections of reproductions reproductions including exhibition catalogs.
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Access points:
1. Is there a preferred use of relationship designators for a single access point?
No, but each relevant relationship is given it's its own |e:
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ex. Jacquette, Yvonne, \|d 1934- \|e artist, \|e interviewerinterviewee. \[Note a comma separates the multiple \|e\] |
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LC practice: Enter an auction catalog or a sales catalog of an art dealer, gallery, etc., under the heading for the dealer, gallery, etc., according to category a of 21.1B2 ("its resources (e.g., catalogs, inventories)") although the dealer, gallery, etc., may have only temporary custody of the contents represented in the catalog. For monographs, make an added entry under the heading for the person or body from whom the contents of the catalog emanated if the person or body is named in the chief source. (If the catalog is devoted to the works of a single artist and contains the reproductions of the artist's works, apply LCRI21.17B.)
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Generally in RDA, the artist is considered a collaborator with authors, editors, curators because he is rarely the chief source of the catalog or a direct influence on the catalog*.* The first named creator should get main entry and the rest get added entries.
Room for judgment to consider the artist as the most prominent among collaborators: see RDA 6.27.1.3, Collaborative works:
Bishop, Henry R. (Henry Rowley), 1786--1855. Faustus
Resource described: Faustus : a musical romance / composed by T. Cooke, Charles E. Horn, and Henry R. Bishop. Bishop's name is given typographic prominence, appearing in all uppercase letters and in a larger and different typeface from that of the others
References:
1. ULAN or Union list of artist's names: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/
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