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1. When does is the artist's name considered part of the title proper (when at head of title) and goes in 245 |a?
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Note the ARLIS best practices for title and statement of responsibility states: Exhibition publications often require more use of cataloger's judgment, and more intervention in terms of transposing, omitting, and supplying date.**If not entered under the artist's name, add a 246 for this access.** Automatically? I think it's more up to judgment than that. Could we just leave the 2nd example as a suggestion, but not make it a requirement?
2. If a book is primarily reproductions of art, do I need to add a 336 for still images?
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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.
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2. +The use of the form subdivisions 'Catalogs' \[H1360\] and 'Exhibitions' \[H 1593\] is very confusing even after reading the SHM blurbs. Any advice?+ |
A dealer (person or form) who has created a publication showing his wares for sale = catalog.
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.
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600 10 $a Klee, Paul, $d 1879-1940 $v Catalogs.
A dealer (person or form) who has created a publication showing his wares for sale = catalog. 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.
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"Art, Chinese" is actually a pattern heading (H 1148) for Fine Arts and does not cover the cover the decorative arts, such as art objects in NK, or architecture, among other things.
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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 including exhibition catalogs. A4 is not applicable to the TRs for artistic photography.
5. Classification frequently involves knowing the 'nationality' of the artist. Some are born in one country, but spend much of their creative life in another. Where do they get classified?
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