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Introduction to the AAT

revised May 2019 For educational purposes

•AAT

is

multilingual;

large

translation

projects

are

underway

•The

Getty

Vocabularies

are

compiled

resources

that

grow

through

contributions

from

various

Getty

projects

and

outside

institutions.

Contributors

to

the

Getty

Vocabularies

include

visual

resources

collections,

museums,

libraries,

archives,

special

collections,

bibliographic

and

documentation

projects,

and

large

translation

projects

• Conceptually

organized

from

terms

to

describe

abstract

concepts

to

generic

terms

for

concrete,

physical

artifacts

•Facets

are

the

upper

levels

of

the

AAT

structure

•AAT

is

not

organized

by

subject

matter

or

discipline

AAT, the Art & Architecture Thesaurus®

Generic terms for describing art and architecture (fine art, built works, decorative arts, other material culture, visual surrogates, archival materials, archaeology, and conservation) (e.g.,

amphora, oil paint, olieverf, peintures à l'huile, acetolysis,

玉器

, Jadekünste, sintering, orthographic drawings, Olmeca,

Rinascimento, Buddhism, watercolors, asa-no-ha-toji

).

Patricia Harpring © 2019 J. Paul Getty Trust. For educational purposes only. Do not distribute.

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