Given that these bibs are rather old. It is entirely possible that catalogers didn’t make such mistakes. It was perhaps caused by OCLC’s quality control algorithms when they tried to convert

650 #0 Athena (Greek deity) in art $v Congresses

650 #0 Athena (Greek deity) in art $v Exhibitions

to the current headings, resulting in a mixed bag. Just a thought. In any case, I suggest that H 1110 be edited either to list $x Art by itself or insert it in the current instruction.

Yang   

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$v or $x   Art

How many times have we been to a museum, looked at an object and said, "But IS it art?"      Unfortunately for Art, we have a code for what it IS and what it's ABOUT, but none recording the critic's eye indicating what it ISN'T!

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Richard C. Amelung, Ph. D., M.A.L.S. 

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Maybe someone thought an exhibition was a congress of pictures? That only requires not understanding what a congress is and not knowing that there is a perfectly good subject heading that already exists.

Or maybe x and v are just too close on the keyboard and the cataloger pushed the wrong one. We can hope...

Preston Salisbury

Assistant Professor and Monographic Cataloger

Mississippi State University

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$v - is the form/genre; $x - is about the form genre.  How you can have a Congress of $v is beyond me (perhaps the pictures got together at night after the museum closed and started conferring).

Aaron Kuperman

LC Law Cataloging Section

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Subject: [PCCLIST] $v Art vs $x Art

What is the difference between the following subject headings (Cf. bib (OCoLC) 52442717) vs (OCLC) 150835830)?

Athena ‡c (Greek deity) ‡v Art ‡v Congresses

Athena ‡c (Greek deity) ‡x Art ‡v Congresses

And (Cf. (OCoLC) 45539635) vs (OCoLC) 466762391)?  

Athena ‡c (Greek deity) ‡v Art ‡v Exhibitions

Athena ‡c (Greek deity) ‡x Art ‡v Exhibitions

The SHM instruction under “H 1110 $v Art” seems to have been causing this problem on a massive scale in OCLC. The second part of the sentence where it states “[Use for] … or works for discussing such art” is perhaps the culprit. This part actually refers to the use of “$x Art” (lccn sh 99001934) and not “$v” (lccn sh 99001267).

For the sake of clarity, why not insert “$x Art” somewhere in the text?  

Yang