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IAINBAXTER&raisonnE: Catalogues raisonnés and the ontological turn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Adam Lauder
Adam Lauder*
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Department of Art University of Toronto, Canada
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Email: lauder.adam@gmail.com
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Abstract

IAINBAXTER&raisonnE is an experimental catalogue raisonné of the conceptual artist IAIN BAXTER &, former President of the ‘critical company’ N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. (NETCO). NETCO creatively re-purposed the media ecology of Marshall McLuhan to challenge Conceptual art’s utilitarian ‘aesthetic of administration’ as well as the categorical assumptions informing library and information science that it mimicked. This article describes the main features of the prototype and argues in favour of an approach to developing catalogues raisonnés with artist-centred designs, for which the principles of linked data may be unduly restrictive or even incompatible.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 40 , Special Issue 2: Catalogues raisonnés, collection catalogues and the future of artwork documentation , 2015 , pp. 8 - 16
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2015

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