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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- What to do with "School of Rembrandt" or "Follower of Annibale Carracci" when coding a record for a work of art?? This question circulates regularly in art and visual resource cataloging circles. And if you can decide what to call that artist without a known name, how would you code it in a MARC field or other database language? A paper on the topic of constructing and coding anonymous artist names, particularly those related to a known artist, has been prepared for discussion by the ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee in Philadelphia. The principal author of the paper is Liz O'Keefe of the Pierpont Morgan Library. CAC is working toward presenting this discussion paper to the USMARC Advisory Group, which is the body responsible for changes to the USMARC format. The paper has been put on a web page at http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/9783. Comments are welcome, both by correspondence now or in person in Philadelphia. (Submitted to the ARLIS and VRA lists by Sherman Clarke, NYU..)