We have an attribute called "work locality" and
another called "birth locality" to catch people whose nationality is
different from the country in which they were born and for the example of the
British artist who worked in Japan. This keeps the Nationality clean but allows
us to search for people by association to different countries.
Suzanne Voce Stephens
Birmingham Museum of Art
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David
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We use the past tense version “American, born Sweden”, and try
to be fairly consistent with it.
But I’ve got a related question: Does this affect what you
consider to be the culture of the object, then? We made an almost
arbitrary decision that the culture of the object had to match the nationality
of the artist. We use the geography fields to denote where the object was
made. Alfred Stieglitz only makes “American” objects, even when he has
taken pictures in France
This hasn’t been completely satisfactory, as we have British
photographers who have worked all of their lives in Japan, but who have
maintained their British nationality. Should these be considered
“British” pictures or “Japanese”? Putting “British and Japanese” as the
culture seems a little strange.
David
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Jeri
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Our standards
include both options, on an artist-by-artist basis, regularly reviewed for
consistency by my department, and reviewed by curatorial chiefs once or twice a
year.
For example, we
have both:
American, born
Sweden
American and
Swedish
Jeri
Jeri Moxley
Manager, Collection and Exhibition Technologies
Collection Management and Exhibition Registration
The Museum of Modern Art
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Tel. (212) 708-9599 Fax. (212) 333-1102
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Jessica
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 4:24 PM
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Subject: dual-nationality
Hi folks…apologies if we’ve
covered this recently…
Has anyone determined a
standard for recording the nationality for artists who are citizens of two
countries and need to be noted as such? We usually say for instance
“American (born France)” but I have an inquiry from a curator wanting the
artist’s display name to include a dual nationality without the pesky past
tense.
Thanks,
Jessica
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