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Subject Headings Used in Online Catalog

Museology and Art & Society  Revised 2003

Compiled by Loraine Baratti &
Janette Rozene, Associate Professor, Cataloging Department
The Library uses Library of Congress Subject Headings in StyleCat   Online Catalog
For an outline of the Library of Congress Classification and the corresponding subject headings,  click here.

Museology  |  Conservation & Restoration  |  Art & Society

Museology

Antiquities
     --Documentation
Archaeological thefts
Art
     --Collectors and collecting
    --Crating
     --Exhibition techniques
     --Exhibitions
     --Forgeries
     --Handling
     --History
     --Marketing
     --Mutilation, defacement, etc.
     --Packing
     --Prices
     --Private collections
    --Protection
     --Radiography
     --Traveling exhibitions
Art auctions
Art exhibition audiences
Art galleries, Commercial
     --Directories
Art museum architecture
Art museum curators
Art museums
     --Administration
     --Designs and plans
     --Directories
     --Educational aspects
     --Guidebooks
     --Security measures
     --Social aspects
     --Visitors
Art objects
     --Documentation
Art patronage
Art patrons
     --Biography
     --Correspondence
     --Interviews
     --Portraits
Art thefts
Artists and museums
Collectors and collecting
Expertising, X-ray
Installations (Art)
Material culture
Museum archives
Museum directors
Museum labels
Museum manikins
Museum registration methods
     --Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Museum techniques
     --Evaluation
Museum trustees
Museum visitors
Museums
     --Access for the physically handicapped
     --Accreditation
     --Acquisitions
     --Administration
     --Climatic factors
     --Data processing
     --Directories
     --Educational aspects
     --Employees –Training of
     --Equipment and supplies
     --Evaluation
     --Guidebooks
     --History
     --Influence
     --Management
     --Moral and ethical aspects
     --Personnel management
     --Protection
     --Public relations
     --Research grants
     --Safety measures
     --Security measures
     --Social aspects
     --Software
     --Standards
     --Vocational guidance
Museums and the relations
Traveling exhibitions


     See also related headings such as:
Cultural policy
Cultural property –Protection
Endowments
Federal aid to the arts –Directories

     See also countries subdivided such as:
United States –Cultural policy

     See also museums such as:
Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.)
Museum at The Fashion Institute of
Technology
Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Victoria and Albert Museum

     See also subject subdivided by –Art patronage such as:
Popes –Art patronage
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
     –Art patronage

     See also specific art patrons such as:
Guggenheim family
Guggenheim, Peggy
Medici, House of
Stieglitz, Alfred

     See also headings such as:
Corporations –Art collections
Costume museums
Forbes Magazine –Art collections
Painting –Collectors and collecting
Rockefeller, John D. –Art collections
Textile museums

For exhibition catalogs, the subdivision is
–Exhibitions, not –Catalogs.
Pop art –Exhibitions

For museum permanent collections see the specific museum subdivided by –Catalogs such as:
Museum of Modern Art –Catalogs


Conservation & Restoration

Museum conservation methods
     --Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Paper –Preservation

     See also headings subdivided by –Control such as: Insect pests, Molds (Fungi), Pests

Selected subjects subdivided by
     --Conservation and restoration:

Antiques
Architecture
Archival materials
Art
Art objects
Books
Costume
Dolls
Drawing
Façades
Furniture
Gilding
Glassware
Graphic arts
Hardware
Historic buildings
Historic sites
Lace and lace making
Leather
Manuscripts
Marble sculpture
Material culture
Metal-work
Monuments
Painting
Photographs
Prints
Quilts
Tapestry
Textile fabrics
Upholstery
Wallpaper


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Art & Society

Aesthetics
African American art
Art
     --Archival resources
     --Computer network resources
     --Dictionaries
     --Economic aspects
     --Encyclopedias
     --Guidebooks
     --Historiography
     --History
     --Literary collections
     --Periodicals
     --Philosophy
     --Political aspects
     --Psychological aspects
     --Psychology
     --Reproduction
     --Research
     --Slides –Catalogs
     --Societies, etc.
     --Society
     --Sources
     --Study and teaching
     --Technique
     --Terminology
     --Vocational guidance
Art and anthropology
Art and camouflage
Art and history
Art and industry
Art and literature
Art and mental illness
Art and morals
Art and music
Art and mythology
Art and photography
Art and religion
Art and science
Art and society
Art and state
Art and technology
Art and war
Art appreciation
Art as an investment
Art centers
Art consultants
Art criticism
     --Authorship
     --Methodology
     --Philosophy
Art critics
Art dealers
Art historians
Art in literature
Art in motion pictures
Art libraries
Art objects as investments
Art publicity
Art therapy
Art treasures in war
Artist colonies
Arts  (The heading Arts includes visual art, literature, and the performing arts, versus Art which only includes visual art.)
     --Finance
     --Marketing
     --Political aspects
     --Psychological aspects
     --Vocational guidance
Arts and religion
Arts and society
Arts facilities
Christianity and art –Catholic Church
Child artists
Children in art
Children’s art
Communication in art
Costume in art
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Cultural property –Repatriation
Dissenters, Artistic
Ethnicity in art
Exoticism in art
Fashion and art
Feminism and art
Fetishism and art
Gay artists
Handicapped and the arts
Internationalism in art
Law and art
Mass media and the arts
Medicine and art
Multiculturalism in art
Mysticism and art
Outsider art
Politics in art
Popular culture
     See also Popular culture subdivided by place such as:
Popular culture –New York (State)
     --New York
Popular culture –East Village (New York, N.Y.)
Portraits
     See also headings such as: Garbo, Greta –Portraits; Women –Portraits
Psychoanalysis and art
Public art
Science and the arts
Sex in art
Social problems in art
Spirituality in art
Statues
     See also places subdivided by –Statues such as: New York (N.Y.) –Statues
Subculture
Subways –Decoration
Technology and the arts
Tourist trade and the arts
Women art critics
Women art dealers
Women art historians
Women art teachers
Women artists

     See also: Camp (Lifestyle), Creative activities and seat work, Eccentrics and eccentricity –Biography.

     See also subjects or organizations such as:
•Art in Embassies Program (U.S.)
•National Endowment for the Arts
•New York Foundation for the Arts. Artists’ Fellowship Program

For FIT student theses, see: Dissertations, Academic –Fashion Institute of Technology

 

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