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Editorial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

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Editorial
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , 1988 , pp. 3 - 4
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1988

References

1. See Fawcett, Trevor. ‘Too much to look at, too much to read’. Art Libraries Journal, v. 12, no.3, 1987, p.5–10.Google Scholar
2. For those who don’t know the story, the student replied ‘But they’re moving!’ If my memory can be trusted, the librarian was Leslie Willmot, formerly of Brighton Polytechnic.Google Scholar
3. Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books, 1972, p.32. The complete sentence is as follows: ‘The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong? to those who can apply it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialists?’Google Scholar
4. Ibid., p.30, where John Berger reproduces a photograph of just such a collection.Google Scholar
5. Schwartz, Gary. ‘Le Musee documentaire: reflections on a database of works mentioned in art treatises and town descriptions before 1800’. AICARC v.14/15, no.25/26, 1986/87, p.56–59.Google Scholar
6. Berger, , op. cit. p.33.Google Scholar