Catalogues Raisonnés
"All the works of an artist". A scholar or a group of scholars documents every work of an artist's career. Each work is pictured, with scholarly opinions, provenance (where the work has been), literature about the work, and spurious works (forgeries). The first place to start when researching an artist or individual work. Not all artists have catalogues raisonnés.
Example:
Toulouse-Lautrec : the complete graphic works : a catalogue raisonné : the Gerstenberg collection by Adriani, Götz, 1940- (New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1988.)
Exhibition Catalogs
Duke Libraries treats its "ex cats" like books, in the catalog and on the shelves. Exhibition catalogs come out more frequently than books and can often be the first to display new or innovative art forms.
Example:
The image to come : how cinema inspires photographers / [chief exhibition curators, Diane Dufour, Serge Toubiana ; in collaboration with Fannie Debanne, Matthieu Orléan, assisted by Anna Planas]. Published Göttingen : Steidl, 2007. Lilly Library: TR646.F72 P3385 2007
"This catalogue was published to accompany ’The Image to Come’, on show at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris from April 4 to July 30, 2007 with support of Orange, our founding partner. The exhibition was co-produced with the CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona"--P. [8].
Permanent Holdings Catalogs (of museums)
Detailed catalogs of a period or genre of art in a particular museum. Like a catalogue raisonné, it will contain a collection of scholar's opinion on an object, conservation reports, provenance and literature (written about it). If you know of the location of a work of art, check for permanent holdings catalogs.
Example:
Dennis, Kelly. Art/porn : a history of seeing and touching / Kelly Dennis. New York : Berg, 2009. Lilly Library:
NX650.E7 D46 2009
Contents Introduction -- Seduction and illusion: sculpture and painting from antiquity to the enlightenment. Art and erotic pleasure -- Art made flesh: Pygmalion and the rhetoric of the flesh -- Seeing and touching: photography and the birth of the modern. Debbie does modernism: photographing the nude in the nineteenth century -- Photography, fetish, voyeur: pornography before the Internet -- Porn into art: the end of sex in the twenty-first century. Hard-core art: internet porn and "new" media -- Sex in the museum: pornography without touching -- Conclusion.
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-237) and index.
