From Library Journal
This ambitious product of the Getty Art History Information Program is a computer-compiled collocation of artist names encountered in ten Getty-funded projects. Those sources include the annually published Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (G.K. Hall. 1975+) as well as the Bibliography of the History of Art project and more specialized projects like the Provenance Index, a recording of art object ownership information. Approximately 200,000 names of artists are clustered under a primary name form, with any variant forms used by any of the participating projects listed below along with variant bibliographic strings (dates, nationality, etc.) and cross references. Most names have bibliographic source citations, although it is not clear which form of name is found in which source. Also, many of the citations are short-form references to a list, the "Selected ULAN [Union List of Artist Names] Bibliography," but many are full and specific. Because this is an empirical list, drawn from lists compiled by projects that only attempt to catalog items in hand, it makes no claim to be universal. Nonetheless, it is a very extensive list of names, and, as such, will be an extremely valuable addition to the ready-reference shelf in all art libraries, next to Mallett's Index of Artists, Havlice's Index to Artistic Biography, and the Artistic Biographies Master Index (all o.p.). An on-line version (not seen) exists, but it is good to have this, the most current tool in the field, available in print as well.?Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
