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Examples

ARLIS exhibition catalog best practices

Art catalogs / Audition and sale catalogs (RI 21.1B2)

Art Catalogs

Categories a and d of rule 21.1B2 include wording that justifies exhibitions as main entry headings. Note, however, that there are very few exhibitions that are establishable as corporate bodies (cf. LCRI 21.1B1).

The remainder of this interpretation is applicable to the remaining cases (the majority) in which the exhibition is not establishable, but consideration of a corporate main entry heading is still necessary in view of the presence of the name of a museum or other body related to the event.

Apply 21.1B2a to the catalog of an exhibition of the works of two or more artists if it meets the following conditions:

1. It emanates from a corporate body.
2. All the works listed are held by the corporate body from which the catalog emanates.

245 10 ‡aHenry Moore to Gilbert & George : modern British art from the Tate Gallery : ‡bPalais des beaux-arts, Brussels, , 28 September-17 November 1873.

260 ‡aLondon : ‡bTate Gallery Publications Dept.

Apply 21.1B2a to a catalog of the works of two or more artists that is not related to an exhibition if it meets both the following conditions:

1. It emanates from a corporate body.
2. All the works listed are held by the corporate body from which the catalog emanates.

245 10 ‡aCatalogue of the Italian paintings before 1800 /‡cby Peter Tomory.

260     ‡a Sarasota, Fla. :‡b John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art

Note that the presence of reproductions of the artists' works or reproductions and text about the artists or the artists' works is not a factor in choosing the main entry for either type of catalog.

If 21.1B2a cannot be applied, enter the catalog under the heading for the person who prepared the catalog or under title, as appropriate.

For the catalog (exhibition or other) of the works of a single artist, apply LCRI 21.17B.

Auction and Sale Catalogs

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., catalogues, 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 LCRI 21.1B7)