Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture: 1975. (Bibliographic Guide Series)Review by: Stephanie J. FrontzARLIS/NA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 4/5 (SUMMER 1976), p. 128Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27945661 .

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image on film emulsion, that is somehow associated with our

physiology, our emotions, our brain waves, our thoughts, and our states of consciousness," and that this process is some how related to acupuncture and uan ancient Chinese way of

looking at man in his world.1' The prediction that radiation field photography will ultimately become a diagnostic tool used to detect disease and maintain physical health has yet to be realized. But any project that tries to see what photo graphy can tell about life and death and looks at such rare and delicate phenomena as St. Elmo's Fire and luminescences deserves some attention, although there is bound to be more than one opinion on whether this is the realm of science or of speculative fiction.

?Marie Czach

Western Illinois University

Bibliographic Guide to A rt and A rchitecture:! 9 75. Boston, G.K. Hall, 1976. ISSN 0360-2699 ISBN 0^8161-6809-1

(Bibliographic Guide Series) $80.00

G.K. Hall's Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture: 1975 (one of the twelve fields in which the Guides are

available) serves as an annual supplement to the Dictionary Catalog of the Art and Architecture Division, the Research Libraries of New York Public Library (G.K.Hall, 1975), and additionally includes entries from Library of Congress MARC tapes, supplying LC numbers and ISBN's. The sub

ject coverage is wide; ranging from the traditional aspects of art and architecture to such areas as city planning, print making, fashion, metalwork, and manuscript illumination. Included also is material in all forms and all languages. The

Bibliographic Guide can thus serve as an information source

for current literature in specific subject fields in the fine

arts, in addition to acting as an acquisitions and cataloging aid.

Access is supplied by main entry (personal author, cor

porate body, names of conference, etc.), added entries

(co-authors, editors, compilers, etc.) titles, series titles, and

subject headings. Full entries, including tracings, are given only under the main entries, while secondary entries have

considerably condensed citations. In some cases more extensive than normal analytics are

supplied-thanks to the entries made by NYPL:

MANET, EDOUARD 1832-1883

Hansen, Anne Coffin. Popular imagery and the work of Edouard Manet. (IN: French 19th Cen

tury painting and literature.)

The user will find this source under a variety of headings: MANET, EDOUARD; French painters as book illustrators; FRENCH LITERATURE-19th CENTURY-HISTORY AND CRITICISM. (With this particular example, however, no entries under the main entry or LC subject headings could

be locat?d in either the Bibliographic Guide or Dictionary

Catalog.) For libraries that own the Dictionary Catalog, the

Bibliographic Guide is a necessary acquisition if annual

supplements are desired.However, if currency of this type of

information is not a great concern, the Dictionary Catalog will eventually have "frequent cumulative supplements" (Dictionary Catalog, p. ili) which will facilitate the retrieval of previously published information.

The Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture is the same publication which was originally known, in 1974, as

the Art and Architecture Book Guide. The title was changed in 1975 and much of the G.K. Hall literature does not indi cate this.

At the price, it seems the Bibliographic Guide is not as useful as it should be. It might possibly serve the smaller, more isolated Art Library which does not have access to such items as the LC Catalogs, OCLC (or other shared-cata

loging systems), etc. Indeed, for up-to-date information on

publications, the Guide can be of use to the art librarian, subject bibliographer, and researcher-but at a high price.

?Stephanie J. Frontz

University of Rochester

Audiovisual Market Place, 1976. New York,Bowker, 1976.

394p. $21.50 LC 69-18201 ISBN 0-8352-0838-9

The Audiovisual Market Place (AVMP) purports to be "a

comprehensive register of organizations, firms and per sonnel in the AV industry," and "a buyer's guide for those

who purchase equipment and instructional materials for

the classroom as well as for those who buy services in the

areas of media production." Well, comprehensive it's not.

Arranged in three sections now-software, hardware and

reference-it falls somewhere between an address book, which

could by handy, and an AV-PTLA cum yellow pages, which

would really be useful. Its claims to comprehensiveness are

belied by the following omissions under Producers and Dis

tributors of AV Software: American Federation of Arts, Blackwood Films, Castelli/Sonnabend, Anacapera, Art In

formation, Dr. Block, Budek, Howard Wise, Art Now, Ro

senthal, Black Box, JCOA, and Saskia. This state of affairs

goes from bad to worse in areas of production services; here, while one could enumerate omissions like Cinemobile, Hann a-Barbe ra, Haboush, Murakami-Wolf, sheer numbers

will show how fruitless it is to attempt this kind of thing: under Sound Recording Services eight companies are listed

in the L.A. area and four companies under Production Fa

cilities, Rental & Videotape-the yellow pages has eight columns of entries under Recording Services, while the

yellow pages list thirteen columns of entries (not inclu

ding ads, mind you) under Motion Picture Producers &

Studios. I'm sure that each reader will find similar omis

sions in local areas.

My point is that since no claim to selectivity is made

but one to comprehensiveness is, these disparities are dif

ficult to reconcile. Better not to attempt such an under

taking if it's not possible to justify one's claims. And is it

necessary to list the officers of production companies (pre sident, director, vice president, treasurer, editor, supervisor,

production manager, etc.)? The section optimistically titled ''Lighting Consultants"

lists five names for the entire United States-but does not

include union locals for IATSE (International Alliance of

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