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ex. 245 |a Indication drawing : |b Dorothea Rockburne
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246:3 : Dorothea Rockburne : \ |b indication drawing \[[a better option\]
Not impossible as an interpretation, but less likely:
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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.
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These are not as necessary for the very general headings, such Art, Modern. Add for less common topics, such as Minimal art. Note that LCSH gives narrower terms, so try to be as specific as possible.unmigrated-wiki-markup
2. +The use of the form subdivisions 'Catalogs' \ [H1360\] and 'Exhibitions' \ [H 1593\] is very confusing even after reading the SHM blurbs. Any advice?+
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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Classification:
1. In regards to artists' artists’ organizations the schedules seem inconsistent. For England firms are included under special artists:
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But for other countries, it's it’s not explicitly stated, such as for Slovenia below:
N7255.S563A-.S563Z Special artist, A-Z
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In the latter case, how does one handle the cuttering of firms/artists' artists’ organizations?
"Special artists, A-Z" is presumed to include named families or firms, even if not specified at each place in the schedule. Unless families/groups/organizations are specifically handled in their own number, treat them as "special artist" in the A-Z with individuals.
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Styles or movements are generally treated through cuttering under a period and artist groups will be treated under A-Z for special artist. You may very well find collectives established some time ago that you wouldn't treat that way today. Groups that wrote manifestos would probably be treated a as agents of collective thought (corporate bodies) today. If the group/movement is already established, generally accept how it was established, whether NAF or SAF.
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Some art libraries do special classifying to keep an artist together. LC does pretty well keeping an artist in the same national grouping so Picasso is French whether it's painting or sculpture or ceramics or prints or general.
4. What is the proper use for A4 for exhibition catalogs?
Use Table N6 where indicated in the N schedule. A4 is used for collections of reproductions including exhibition catalogs. A4 is not applicable to the TRs for artistic photography.
general. (See next question)
45. 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?
Generally artists are classed where they are born. Cornell puts Picasso, for example, with Spanish rather than French artists. The catalog is very mixed, however, since we accept copy. The ULAN link below may help determine 'nationality' in confusing caseswe accept copy. The ULAN link below may help determine 'nationality' in confusing cases. (See previous question)
5. What is the proper use for A4 for exhibition catalogs?
Use Table N6 where indicated in the N schedule. A4 is used for collections of reproductions including exhibition catalogs. A4 is not applicable to the TRs for artistic photography.
Sherman Clarke's classification cheat sheet from 1989 with various updates and not covered elsewhere: |
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NA was previously preferred for works on buildings or building types. However, when LC or member copy classifies such material in the history/description schedules (e.g. D, E, F), accept these classifications. |
TR140 was preferred for works by or about individual photographers. We now follow LC practice (e.g. TR140 should be used for biographies of individual photographers, TR647 for exhibitions, and TR654/655 for non-exhibitions with slight biographical content). Note: A4 should no longer be used with the TR schedule. |
Works about individual artists are classed first by medium (e.g. sculpture, painting, printmaking) and second by nationality. Use general N class if the works contains more than one medium. |
City planning used to be classified in NAC and landscape architecture in NP. These classifications are no longer used. If a new edition arrives for an item previously classed in this area, the related edition should be classified/reclassified into HT, SB, etc. |
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No, but each relevant relationship is given its own |e:
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Cull, Dave \ |c (Writer on art) \ |e writer of added text \[Note there is no comma after \|c and before \ |e\]
2. What is the main entry for auction and sales catalogs?
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1. ULAN or Union list of artist's names: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/unmigrated-wiki-markup
2. ARLIS' Cataloging exhibition publications: best practices \ [AARC2\]: [http://www.loc.gov/cds/desktop/documents/cep-bp.pdf]
3. Arlis CPGD or Cataloging Problems Discussion Group:
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