more than meets the eye: subject cataloging for images
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More Than Meets the EyeMore Than Meets the Eye
Subject Cataloging for Images
ARLIS/VRA Joint Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN 2011
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Moderator: Karen KesselVisual Resources Specialist, Sonoma State University
Patricia Harpring, Director, Getty Digital Art History Access and Vocabulary Program
Judy Weedman, Professor, San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science
Dustin Wees, Director of Metadata and Cataloging, ARTstor
Hans Brandhorst, ICONCLASS
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Charles Sheeler, Self-Portrait, 1923
Charles Sheeler uses this image of a telephone to convey something about himself as an artist
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For Images, Subject equals
Of-Of-ness
About-About-ness
Who, What, Where, When, Why
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Pieter Brueghel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
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Rene Magritte, The Son of Man, 1964
“Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us.”
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Fogg Classification System Subject Categories
Religious Subjects (further subdivided by iconographic categories for Western and Asian art)
Mythology, Legend, and Allegory
Portraits, subdivided by gender, number, identity
Landscape and Marine
Architectural subjects Architecture, Sculpture and Decorative arts have additional categories by function
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Simons Tansey Classification System Subject Categories
AbstractionsAltarpiecesAnimals and PlantsAsiatic Religious subjectsCycles or seriesArchitectural exteriors and interiorsBustsFiguresFurnitureGenreHistorical, military, politicalModern art movementsLandscapes, seascapes, cityscapes
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Simons Tansey Classification System
Subject Categories
Mythological, allegorical, legendary, literaryNew TestamentOld Testament and ApocryphaPortraitsSaintsStill LifesArt Theory, subdivided into Color, Composition, and PerspectiveTombs, for Sculpture
Architecture and Decorative Arts are categorized by function
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Sonoma State University Art Department
Local Subject Cataloging TermsAnimals
Architecture Subjects
Interiors
Figurative (People)
Landscape, Seascape, Sky
Natural Forces
Non-Objective
Still Life
Inanimate Objects
Plant Forms
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Erwin Panofsky’s 3 levels of Meaning in Art:
Physical description
Expressional analysis or identification of subject
Iconographic Interpretation
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“Presentation Theme” drawn from a Moche stirrup bottle from ancient Peru and interpreted by Christopher Donnan