LCSH for Art & Architecture

2009 Revision

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Art H 1250 Art and Fine Art (Overview) For art, arrays are used rather than

single headings Use subject arrays to bring out art

historical periods, styles, themes, ownership, etc.

H 1148 Pattern heading subdivisions

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Definitions Art (“fine art”): painting, sculpture,

drawing, prints. Art (“visual arts”): fine art, decorative

art, & architecture considered collectively

Arts: visual arts, literature, and the performing arts (e.g. theater, dance, music) considered collectively

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Obsolete Practices (1) OBSOLETE: Singular term=technique,

aesthetics, history. Example: Painting OBSOLETE: Plural term=catalogs,

reproductions, restoration. Example: Paintings

CURRENT (since 1977): Use singular for both categories: Painting

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Obsolete Practices (2) OBSOLETE: Geographic subdivision

followed chronological subdivision for modern period. 1. Painting, Modern $y 20th century $z

France $z Rouen. <paired with:>2. Painting, French $z France $z Rouen.

CURRENT (since 2001): Painting, French $z France $z Rouen $y

20th century.

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More than one artist (H 1250) Art form with

national, regional, ethnic or religious qualifier $z place of origin $y period

Art form with period qualifier $z place of origin [pre-1500 only!]

Style, movement $z Place of origin

Theme Art form $z Present

location Owner Other headings as

appropriate

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--History (H 1250) Use –History only for headings assigned

to general, all-inclusive terms: 650 _0 $a Prints $x History.

Do not use–History to works limited to headings for one country or after form subdivisions like –Art, --Portraits:650 _0 $a Art, Japanese. $x History.

Do not use the subdivision –History and criticism with art headings

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Pattern headings (H 1148) (1) Use H 1148 for fine arts H 1148 chronological subdivisions are not

free floating if the art form is qualified by time period [but may be editorially established]

Use H 1148 for other art forms only if qualified by nationality, region, ethnic group, or time period; otherwise, DO NOT USE FOR: decorative arts, architecture, performing arts, and art headings qualified by religion

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Pattern headings (H 1148) (2) Use chronological subdivisions under Art,

Italian for art of any nationality except Chinese, Japanese & Korean

There are separate chronological subdivisions for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art

Use form/topical subdivisions in H 1148 if applicable; otherwise use subdivisions in H 1095, H 1110, etc.

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Chronological Subdivisions under Art, Italian (H 1148) Range is 10th century through 21st

century --History is not inserted before century Not free-floating under unqualified art

forms (Sculpture) Not free-floating under art forms

qualified by time-period (Sculpture, Modern)

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More than one artist. Examples: national, regional qualifiers

650 _0 $a Landscape painting, French $z France $z Paris $y 17th century.

650 _0 $a Prints, English $y 18th century.650_0 $a Sculpture, Chinese $z China $z

Longmen Caves $y Three kingdoms-Sui dynasty, 220-618 $v Exhibitions.

650 _0 $a Art, Middle Eastern $y 20th century.

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More than one artist. Example: ethnic & chronological qualifiers

England’s earliest sculptors. 1. 650 _0 $a Sculpture, Anglo-Saxon $z

England.2. 660 _0 $a Sculpture, Medieval $z

England.BUT: Maori : art and culture.1. 650 _0 $a Art, Maori. $z New Zealand.

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More than one artist. Example: religious & nationality qualifier pairing

Stilkritische Untersuchungen zur buddhistischen Holzskulptur der Nara- und der fruhen Heian-Zeit.

1. 650 _0 $a Gods, Buddhist, in art.2. 650 _0 $a Sculpture, Buddhist $z Japan.3. 650 _0 $a Sculpture, Japanese $y To 794.4. 650 _0 $a Sculpture, Japanese $y Heian

period, 794-1185.

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More than one artist. Examples: chronological qualifiers (pre-1500) Chronological qualifier1. Relief (Sculpture), German $z Germany $z

Halberstadt $y 13th century.2. Relief (Sculpture), Medieval $z Germany $z

Halberstadt. <PERIOD> Implied chronological period:1. Sculpture, French $z France $z Autun. 2. Sculpture, Romanesque $z France $z

Autun. <STYLE; implied period>

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Pre-Medieval chronology pairing Art of ancient Bengal terracottas.

650 _0 $a Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic $z India $z Bengal.650 _0 Sculpture, Ancient $z India $z Bengal.

Greek sculpture : function, materials, and techniques in the archaic and classical periods.650 _0 $a Sculpture, Greek.

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Other Pre-Medieval qualifiers Examples:

Art, Minoan Bronze sculpture, Hellenistic Marble sculpture, Classical Mural painting and decoration, Roman Relief (Sculpture), Assyro-Babylonian Sculpture, Greco-Roman

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More than one artist. Examples: chronological qualifiers (post-1500) No chronological qualifier:

1. Art, American $z Kansas $y 20th century. 2nd subject with implied period:

1. Sculpture, German $z Germany $z Bavaria $y 17th century.2. Sculpture, Baroque $z Germany $z Bavaria.

Chronological qualifier for general survey1. Sculpture, Modern $y 19th century.

Implied period for general survey:1. Sculpture, Victorian.

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More than one artist. Examples: Chronological subdivisions

650 _0 $a Drawing, English $y 18th century $v Catalogs. BUT:

650 _0 $a Drawing, Medieval $z Italy $v Catalogs. [catalog of 14th century drawings]

650 _0 $a Furniture $z United States $x History $y 20th century $v Exhibitions.

650 _0 $a Art, Buddhist $z China. [cannot assign Qin-Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D.]

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More than one artist. Examples: styles, movements, themes

Prints, Victorian.Naturalism in art.Tears in art.New Haven (Conn.) $x In art.Washington, George, $d 1732-1799 $x

Portraits. <theme NOT collection>

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More than one artist. Example: location, ownership (1)Treasures of Asian art : the Asia Society's Mr.

and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection.1. 650 _0 $a Art, Asian $v Catalogs.2. 600 10 $a Rockefeller, John D., $d 1906- $x

Art collections $v Catalogs [H 1427]3. 600 10 $a Rockefeller, Blanchette Hooker, $d

1909- $x Art collections $v Catalogs. [H 1427]4. 610 20 $a Asia Society. $b Galleries $v

Catalogs. [H 1427]

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More than one artist. Example: location, ownership (2)Treasures of Asian art : the Asia Society's Mr.

and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection.5. 650 _0 $a Art $x Private collections $z New

York (State) $z New York $v Catalogs.6. 650 _0 $a Art $z New York (State) $z New

York $v Catalogs.

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Art by a Single Artist Heading for the artist with free-floating

subdivisions from H 1110 Headings for style, theme, location,

ownership (see More than one artist) Biographical headings if appropriate from H

1330 Do not assign [art form with national,

regional, ethnic, religious, or period qualifier]

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Art by a Single ArtistEXAMPLE (Lucian Freud : etchings from the

Paine Webber art collection)1. 600 10 $a Freud, Lucian $v Exhibitions.2. 650 _0 $a Figurative art, British $v

Exhibitions. <STYLE>3. 650 _0 $a Etching $z Great Britain $v

Exhibitions. <ART FORM NOT QUALIFIED>4. 610 20 $a Paine Webber Inc. $v Exhibitions.

<OWNER>

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Art by Individual Artists EXAMPLE (Van Gogh and Gauguin : the studio of the

south …)

1. 600 10 $a Gogh, Vincent van, $d 1853-1890.2. 650 _0 $a Artists $z Netherlands $v Biography.3. 600 10 $a Gauguin, Paul, $d 1848-1903.4. 650 _0 $a Artists $z France $v Biography.5. 650 _0 $a Artistic collaboration $z France $z Arles.

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--Criticism and interpretation EXAMPLE (Van Gogh and Gauguin : the

search for sacred art)

600 10 $a Gogh, Vincent van, $d 1853-1890 $x Criticism and interpretation.600 10 $a Gauguin, Paul, $d 1848-1903 $z Criticism and interpretation.650 _0 $a Artistic collaboration $z France.650 _0 $a Religion in art.

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--Catalog Subdivisions Most common free-floating subdivisions

under names of artists: $v Catalogs [lists of objects often systematically

arranged with descriptive details, e.g. auction, gallery, or museum catalogs]

$v Catalogues raisonnés [comprehensive listings, chronologically or systematically arranged]

$v Exhibitions [exhibition catalogs]

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Example: --Catalogs Albrecht Durer in the collection of the National

Gallery of Victoria.

600 10 $a Dürer, Albrecht, $d 1471-1528 $v Catalogs.600 10 $a Dürer, Albrecht, $d 1471-1528 $x Criticism and interpretation.650 _0 $a Prints $z Australia $z Melbourne (Vic.) $v Catalogs.610 20 $a National Gallery of Victoria $v Catalogs.

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Example: --Catalogs Weltliches Silber : Katalog der

Sammlung des Schweizerischen Landesmuseums Zurich …

650 _0 $a Silverwork $z Switzerland $z Zürich $v Catalogs.610 20 $a Schweizerisches Landesmuseum $v Catalogs.

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Example:--Catalogues raisonnés

Allan Ramsay : a complete catalogue of his paintings …

600 10 $a Ramsay, Allan, $d 1713-1784 $v Catalogues raisonnés.

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Example: Exhibition and Catalogue raisonné Charles Cottet, 1863-1925 : catalogue

raisonne de l'oeuvre grave …

600 10 $a Cottet, Charles, $d 1863-1925 $v Exhibitions.651 _0 $a Brittany (France) $v In art $v Exhibitions.600 10 $a Cottet, Charles, $d 1863-1925 $v Catalogues raisonnés.

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Individual works of art (H 1250) Assign the name of the art work [see

LCRI 25.4A Named Individual Works of Art]

Assign other headings appropriate for a single artist

Assign headings for ownership & location only if readily available in the item cataloged

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Examples: Individual Works of Art Disarmed : the story of the Venus de Milo.

630 00 $a Venus de Milo.650 _0 $a Aphrodite (Greek deity) $v Art.650 _0 $a Marble sculpture, Greek.650 _0 $a Marble sculpture, Ancient $z Greece.650 _0 $a Sculpture $z France $z Paris.610 20 $a Musée du Louvre.

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Example: Individual Works of Art Guernica : the biography of a twentieth-

century icon.

600 10 $a Picasso, Pablo, $d 1881-1973. $t Guernica.651 _0 $a Spain $x History $y Civil War, 1936-1939 $x Art and the war.650 _0 $a Art $x Political aspects $z Spain $x History $y 20th century.

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Decorative arts H 1148 Free-floating subdivisions do not

apply unless the heading is qualfied by nationality, region, ethnic group, or time period

For chronological subdivisions, --History subdivisions under H 1095 can be used

Some chronological subdivisions for specific countries (e.g. East Asia), have been established for Decorative arts [the subject]

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Example: More than One (Decorative) Artist Papierspiel & Bilderbogen : aus Tokio und Wien

1780-1880. <Cannot use H 1148>

650 _0 $a Paper work $z Japan $x Exhibitions.650 _0 $a Decorative arts $z Japan $x History $y Edo period, 1500-1868 $x Exhibitions.650 _0 $a Paper work $z Austria $z Vienna $x Exhibitions.650 _0 $a Decorative arts $z Austria $z Vienna $x History $y 18th century $x Exhibitions.

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Example: Decorative arts heading qualified by nationality Ceramiche del '600 e '700 : dei Musei civici di

Padova. <OK TO USE H 1148> 650 _0 $a Pottery, Italian $y 17th century $v

Exhibitions.650 _0 $a Pottery, Italian $y 18th century $v Exhibitions.650 _0 $a Pottery $z Italy $z Padua $v Catalogs.610 20 $a Museo civico di Padova $v Exhibitions.

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Example: Individual (Decorative) Artist Emilio Prazio : 1897-1977 : artista e

scultore del ferro battuto.

600 10 $a Prazio, Emilio, $d 1897-1977 $v Exhibitions.650 _0 $a Ironwork $z Italy $x History $y 20th century $v Exhibitions.

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Architecture Focus is on design & style, not construction To bring out place/time for modern

architecture: Architecture $z [Place] $x History $y [To 1500-21st century]

Chronological subdivision applied only if there is a $z [Place]

Qualify by nationality only for works about the national style in other countries

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Obsolete/Current Practice OBSOLETE: Geographic subdivision

followed chronological subdivision. 1. Architecture, Modern $y 20th century $z France

$z Rouen. <paired with:>2. Architecture $z France $z Rouen.

2001-2008: Architecture $z France $z Rouen $y 20th century.

2008- Architecture $z France $z Rouen $x History $y

20th century.

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Examples (1) L'architecture moderne en France …

1. 650 _0 $a Architecture $z France $x History $y 19th century.2. 650 _0 $a Architecture $z France $x History $y 20th century.

The Phaidon atlas of contemporary world architecture. 1. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Modern $y 20th century.

2. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Modern $y 21st century.

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Examples (2) National Qualifier Boston's French secrets : guided walks

that reveal Boston's French heritage … 650 _0 $a Architecture, French $z

Massachusetts $z Boston $v Guidebooks.BUT:

Byzantine monuments of Istanbul. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Byzantine $z

Turkey $z Istanbul.<not national qualifier>

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Arrays for Chronology (Modern) New wave Japanese architecture.

1. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Postmodern $z Japan.2. 650 _0 $a Deconstructivism (Architecture) $z Japan.3. 650 _0 $a Architecture $z Japan $x History $y 20th century.

Prayers in stone : Christian Science architecture in the United States, 1894-1930

1. Christian Science church buildings $z United States.2. Architecture $z United States $x History $y 19th century.3. Architecture $z United States $x History $y 20th century.

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Pre-Modern Architecture Architecture, Ancient Architecture, Classical Architecture, Hellenistic Architecture, Medieval Architecture, Renaissance Not NTs under Architecture

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Pre-Modern Examples (1) Building communities in Gujarat :

architecture and society during the twelfth through fourteenth centuries … 1. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Islamic $z India

$z Gujarat.2. 650 _0 Architecture, Medieval $z India $z Gujarat.

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Pre-Modern Examples (2) Greek architecture …

1. 650 _0 $a Architecture $z Greece.2. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Classical $z Greece.

Theorie et pratique de l'architecture romaine …1. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Roman.

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Pre-Modern Examples (3) Design and construction in Romanesque

architecture. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Romanesque.

The origins of medieval architecture : building in Europe, A.D 600-900. 1. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Medieval $z Europe.

2. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Early Christian.3. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Carolingian.4. 650 _0 $a Church architecture $z Europe.

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Religious Buildings/Architecture The religious monuments of Singapore.

<Classes in DS609.3>

650 _0 $a Monuments $z Singapore.650 _0 $a Church buildings $z Singapore.650 _0 $a Mosques $z Singapore.650 _0 $a Temples, Hindu $z Singapore.650 _0 $a Temples, Chinese $z Singapore.650 _0 $a Synagogues $z Singapore.

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Church buildings Every pilgrim's guide to Assisi and other

Franciscan places. <classes in DG975.A8>651 _0 $a Assisi (Italy) $v Guidebooks.650 _0 $a Church buildings $z Italy $z Assisi $v Guidebooks.600 00 $a Francis, $c of Assisi, Saint, $d 1182-1226 $x Shrines.651 _0 $a Italy $v Guidebooks.

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Buildings/Architecture Places of worship : 150 years of Latter-

Day Saint architecture. <classes in NA4829.M67>650 _0 $a Mormon church buildings $x Design and construction $x History.650 _0 $a Mormon architecture.

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Church architecture Monasteres espagnols : architecture et

vie monastique.

650 _0 $a Monasteries $z Spain.650 _0 $a Church architecture $z Spain.

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Synagogue architecture Judaismo, estetica y arquitectura : la

sinagoga sefardi .

650 _0 $a Synagogue architecture $z Spain.650 _0 $a Architecture, Jewish $z Spain.650 _0 $a Synagogue art $z Spain.650 _0 $a Sephardim $z Spain.

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Vernacular Architecture (1) Indonesian houses …

1. 650 _0 $a Vernacular architecture $z Indonesia.2. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Domestic $z Indonesia.3. 650 _0 $a Dwellings $z Indonesia.

Lavoirs : washhouses of rural France.1. 650 _0 $a Public laundries $z France.2. 650 _0 $a Vernacular architecture $z France.

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Vernacular Architecture (2) Ozark vernacular houses : a study of rural

homeplaces in the Arkansas Ozarks, 1830-19301. 650 _0 $a Vernacular architecture $z Arkansas $x

History $y 19th century. 650 _0 $a Vernacular architecture $z Arkansas $x

History $y 20th century. 650 _0 $a Vernacular architecture $z Ozark

Mountains Region $x History $y 19th century. 650 _0 $a Vernacular architecture $z Ozark

Mountains Region $x History $y 20th century.

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Architects/Architectural Firms Heading for the architect with free-

floating subdivisions from H 1110, or, Heading for firm using H 1105 Assign an architecture subject to bring

out place and period. Biographical headings [only] if

appropriate from H 1330 Headings for style, theme [if specific]

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Examples: Arrays for Firm, Architect (1)

1100 Architect. 1. 610 20 $a 1100 Architect (Firm) 2. 650 _0 $a Architecture $z United States $x

History $y 20th century. Robert A.M. Stern : buildings and projects,

1999/2003. 600 10 $a Stern, Robert A. M. 610 20 $a Robert A.M. Stern Architects. 650 _0 $a Architecture $z United States $x History

$y 20th century.

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Examples: Arrays for Firm, Architect (2)

Nicholas Hawksmoor : rebuilding ancient wonders. 1. 600 10 $a Hawksmoor, Nicholas, $d

1661-1736 $x Criticism and interpretation. 2. 650 _0 $a Architecture $z England $x

History $y 18th century.

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Buildings (H 1334) (1) Scope:

Buildings (castles, houses, city halls) Building details (windows, doors, domes, rooms_ Fortresses Gates Monuments Plazas Tunnels Walls

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Buildings (H 1334) (2) Heading arrays

6xx $a [name of structure] 651 $a [name of city] $x Buildings, structures, etc. 6xx $a [name of architect or firm] 600 $a [name of owner] $x Homes and haunts $z

[place] 600 $a [name of person memorialized] $x

Monuments $z [place] 6xx $a [any other special features or topics if

appropriate]

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Buildings: House Fallingwater rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J.

Kaufmann, and America's most extraordinary house …

600 10 $a Wright, Frank Lloyd, $d 1867-1959 $x Criticism and interpretation.600 10 $a Kaufmann, Edgar J., $d 1885-1955 $x Homes and haunts $z Pennsylvania.610 20 $a Fallingwater (Pa.)

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Buildings: Church1. 600 00 $a Michelangelo Buonarroti, $d

1475-1564 $x Criticism and interpretation.2. 610 20 $a San Lorenzo (Church : Florence,

Italy)3. 650 _0 $a Architecture, Renaissance $z

Italy $z Florence.4. 651 _0 $a Florence (Italy) $x Buildings,

structures, etc.

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Exercises

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Exercise 1: French paintings of the nineteenth century

French paintings of the nineteenth century.

650 _0 $a Painting, French $y 19th century $v Catalogs.

650 _0 $a Painting $z Washington (D.C.) $v Catalogs.

610 20 $a National Gallery of Art (U.S.) $v Catalogs.

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Exercise 2: The Modigliani caper …

1. 600 10 $a Modigliani, Amedeo, $d 1884-1920 $x Forgeries.

2. 650 _0 $a Sculpture $x Forgeries $z Italy.

3. Sculpture, Italian $x Expertising.

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Exercise 3:San Francisco and the second wave

…1. 650 _0 $a Abstract expressionism $z

California $z San Francisco $v Exhibitions.2. 650 _0 $a Painting, American $z California

$z San Francisco $y 20th century $v Exhibitions.

3. 600 10 $a Blair, George Y. $x Art collections $v Exhibitions.

4. 650 _0 $a Painting $x Private collections $z California $z San Francisco $v Exhibitions.

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Exercise 4: Masterpieces of Chinese painting …

1. 650 _0 $a Painting, Chinese $y Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960 $v Catalogs.

2. 650 _0 $a Painting, Chinese $y Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368 $v Catalogs.

3. 650 _0 $a Painting $z Massachusetts $z Boston $v Catalogs.

4. 610 20 $a Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ‡v Catalogs.

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Exercise 5: Salvador Dali1. 600 10 $a Dali, Salvador, $d 1904-

1989 $v Catalogues raisonnés.

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Exercise 6: Louis I. Kahn …1. 600 10 $a Kahn, Louis I., $d 1901-

1974 $x Criticism and interpretation.2. 610 20 $a Yale Center for British Art.3. 650 _0 $a Architecture $z Connecticut

$z New Haven $x History $y 20th century.

4. 651 _0 $a New Haven (Conn.) $x Buildings, structures, etc.

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Evaluating Headings (1) Painting and sculpture before 1800 in

the international collections of the National Gallery of Victoria. [LCCN 2005472398]

650 _0 $a Paintings $z Australia $z Victoria $v Exhibitions.

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Evaluating Headings (2) The renaissance in India. [LCCN

2006346208]

650 _0 $a Indic literature (English) $x History and criticism. <OK>

650 _0 $a Painting, Indic. $x History.

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Evaluating Headings (3) Ibrahim Hussein : a retrospective.

[LCCN 86943332 Orbis]Personal name subjects OK650 _0 $a Painting, Malaysian $v Exhibitions.650 _0 $a Painting, Modern $y 20th century $z Malaysia $v Exhibitions.

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Evaluating Headings (4) Wu Zuoren wen xuan.

650 _0 $a Painting, Chinese. $x History and criticism.650 _0 $a Artists, Chinese $y 20th century.650 _0 $a Art $x History. and criticism.

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Evaluating Headings (5) Arquitectura aragonesa del siglo

XVI … (Orbis pcc record)

650 _0 $a Architecture, Spanish $z Spain $z Aragon. 650 _0 $a ArchitectureSpanish $z Spain $z Aragon $x History $y 16th century.

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Evaluating Headings (6) Ilya Kabakov : installations 1983-

2000 : catalogue raisonne . [LCCN 2006482997]

600 10 $a Kabakov, Ilʹia Iosifovich, $d 1933- $v Catalogues raisonnés.650 _0 $a Installations (Art) $v Catalogues raisonnés.

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Evaluating Headings (7) Zier- und Gebrauchsglas des 19. und 20.

Jahrhunderts : aus der Glassammlung des Mainfrankisches Museums Wurzburg. [LCCN 95204648]

650 _0 $a Glassware $z Europe $x History $y 19th century $x Catalogs.650 _0 $a Glassware $z Europe $x History $y 20th century $x Catalogs. 610 20 $a Mainfrankisches Museum Wurzburg $x Catalogs.