Exhibition catalogs can often be a source of new research on a topic and many bibliographic citations. A catalog will have images of the installation and many, but not all of the works.
Most exhibition catalogs are easily discoverable in the SMU Libraries catalog by their title. However, older catalogs may have titles that vary from the exhibition name. You may also search by the name of the museum, gallery, or institution and the keyword exhibition. Rather than exhibit, exhibition will result in more titles. You may also search to see if there are exhibition catalogs on artists, periods, or themes by subject search.
Outside of Hamon’s collection of you may find exhibition publications and more through the index, Artbibliographies Modern, which covers book and article citation from the period the late nineteenth-century to the twenty-first century. ABM does not have full-text, but the citations for the article and journal are discoverable by selecting the blue button for SMU's catalog.
A catalogue raisonné in art is a catalogue of complete works by an artist. Some CRs catalogue the complete works of an artist known œuvre or body of work, and other CRs only catalog a span of an artist’s career, such as a decade, or a genre, such as drawings, within the artist’s entire œuvre. Many, but not all, CRs can be found in the SMU Libraries catalog by searching both the artist’s name by subject (last name first) and the term: raisonné or complete.
Because a CR sequentially covers an artist’s body of work, it can be a multi-volume publication, such as the Christian Zervos thirty-three-volume Picasso catalog raisonné. However, most CRs range between one to four volumes.