Professional paper
The importance of genre and physical characteristic headings in subject asnalysis of fine arts : the example of cataloguing fine arts materials in the Graphic Arts Collection in the National and University Library in Zageb
Vesna Vlašić Jurić
orcid.org/0000-0001-9431-5668
; Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Tamara Ilić Olujić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1099-2798
; Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Visual arts materials present a rich source of various information that require appropriate description in order to make them accessible to different users and user groups. The paper stresses the necessity of using genre and physical characteristic headings in describing works of art as important differentiating elements in the field of art history. Forms of visual expression in fine arts can be considerably versatile. The selection of artistic media and production techniques depend on the sensibilities and affinities of individual artists, and play a significant role in experiencing and studying a work of art in its entirety. An artist expresses his personal views, attitudes towards people, places and his own sensibilities to landscapes through art. In this process he is using specific artistic techniques, which, in subject analysis, determine subject headings describing genre and physical characteristics of the work of art. Qualitative subject analysis, in addition to the building of controlled vocabulary, will provide faster and easier ways of searching and retrieving information, and constructing new knowledge for users.
Keywords
visual materials; genre and physical characteristic headings; controlled vocabulary
Hrčak ID:
142283
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Publication date:
16.3.2015.
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