ILS-531 Indexing & abstracting

©2005 Amy Proni
and Susanna Cowan
Abstract analysis
Main index
Special project: index for NCAW
Thesaurus review

This index was created as a joint project with classmate Susanna Cowan for the course ILS-531, Indexing and abstracting, taught by Dr. Y. Q. Liu, Southern Connecticut State University, Spring, 2005.

Assignment: Index a group of electronic documents/web sites on a topic of your interest. The web indexing project will need to use both recall and precision techniques. The total of your index terms should be less than 5% of the total words/pages of document(s)/web sites that you have selected, and the total words of the selected documents/websites should be a minimum of 6000 words (8 pages); preferably more.


Special project 
An index for the article Anatomy of a Motif: The Fetus in late 19th-Century Art, by Elizabeth K. Menon, which appeared in the online journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, v3(1), Spring 2004



Notes on presentation
Combined index
Index:
Smalls

Index:
Floyd
Index:
Brzyski
Index:
Menon
Index:
van der Plaat

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Notes on the presentation of this index
Individual indexes for each article. These individual indexes are intended to make our index usable. Although we have yet to hear back from the editor of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, we still have hopes that she will respond and express interest in the work we have done. These individual indexes could be “attached” to each article for the use of journal readers and wouldn’t require the publisher to create a full-fledged online index for the entire journal. Our aim in providing two formats is to provide the greatest flexibility for the potential use of this index. Whereas the cumulative index can be viewed as a stand-alone object; the individual indexes can be viewed as guides intended to be used with particular articles.

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Individual index (Menon), page 1
The following index is for the article by Elizabeth K. Menon: Anatomy of a Motif: The Fetus in Late 19th Century Art. (NCAW, vol. 3, no. 1, article 4)

Note: index “page” numbers are actually references to paragraphs, as each article is composed of consecutively arranged paragraphs.

A
abortion
   and fetus motif, 1, 3, 5, 12, 21, 25, 31
alcoholism, 16
   and fetus motif, 17, 32
Ancien Chat Noir, 14, 16
art critics
   disparage Beardsley, 22
   Roger-Milès, Léon: on Somm, 14
Art, British. 19th century
   France, 1, 22, 23, 26, 27
Art, French. 19th century, 1, 13–14, 23, 26
   misogyny depicted in, 14
Art, German. 19th century
   France, 23
Art, Norwegian. 19th century
   France, 1, 22, 26, 28–30
Art, Norwegian. 20th century
   France, 1, 22, 26
Aux mères heureuses (Zola), 4

B
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 18
bas-bleu, 10. See also feminist movement
Beardsley, Aubrey. See Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent
Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent
   and Symbolist, 22
   disparaged by London critics, 22
   use of fetus motif, 1, 22–27, 32
   viewed by Heyd, 23
   viewed by Zatlin, 25
   Works
     Incipit Vita Nova, 27
     Incipit Vita Nova [illustration] (fig. 12), 26, 27
     Lucian’s Strange Creatures, 26
     Lucian’s Strange Creatures [illustration] (fig. 11), 26
     vignette illustration from Bon Mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan, The, 23–25
     vignette illustration from Bon Mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan, The [illustration] (fig. 10), 23
Beauduin, Jean
   L’Emancipation de la Femme, 5
   L’Emancipation de la Femme, [illustration] (fig. 3), 5
Bing, Siegfried
   Maison de l’Art Nouveau, Paris, 29
Blake, William, 23
   Bon Mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan, The (Beardsley), 23
   Bon Mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan, The (Beardsley) [illustration] (fig. 10), 23
Bonnat, Léon, 28
Bourget, Paul
   Physiologie de l’amour moderne, 11

C
Claire Lenoir (Villiers de l’Isle-Adam), 10
Contribution à l’étude de la population et de la dépopulation (Turquan), 4
Courrier de France, 7
Crémière, Cédric
   mummified foetus, 28
   mummified foetus [illustration] (fig. 14), 26
   Photograph of medical specimen [illustration] (fig. 1), 1
   Photograph of medical specimen [illustration] (fig. 2), 3

D
deformity
   and fetus motif, 1, 2
degeneration
   and fetus motif, 1, 2, 12, 31
depopulation
   and feminist movement, 1, 4, 5, 6–9, 31
   and fetus motif, 1, 2
Deraismes, Maria, 8
Draner. See Renard, Jules
Durand, Marguerite, 8

E
École de Médecine, Paris
   collection of fetal specimens, 3, 22, 28
Edward Scissorhands
   representation of human abnormalities, 21
Eggum, Arne
   views on Munch, 29
Ellis, Havelock, 29
embryo in art. See fetus motif: used by artists: Beardsley
Enlightenment
   and women, 10

F
family planning, 4, 6–9
feminism. See feminist movement
feminist movement. See also women
   and family planning, 8
   and fetus motif, 1, 32
   in 19th century France, 4–9, 31
fetal specimens
   museums and traveling sideshows, 3, 22, 28
fetus motif, 1–9
   and abortion, 5
   and alcoholism, 17, 32
   and feminist movement, 4–9, 32
   and femme fatales, 26, 31, 32
   and sexual decadence, 29
   and virtuous motherhood, 27
   and war, 4
   as symbol of degeneration, 4, 10, 17, 21, 31
   as symbol of depopulation, 4, 31
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Individual index (Menon), page 2
F (continued)
fetus motif (continued)
   collection of fetal specimens
     École de Médecine, Paris, 3
     Musée Dupuytren, Paris, 1, 3
     Robin, Pierre, 3
     Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy de, 3
   in Symbolist art, 13–14
   used by artists
     Beardsley, 22–27
     Mossa, 21
     Munch, 22, 28, 30
     Somm, 14–16
Franco-Prussian War (1870)
   influence on fetus motif, 4
French Symbolists. See Symbolist

H
Heyd, Milly
   views on Beardsley, 23
human abnormalities
   and imaginationists, 10–12
   and women, 10–12
   represented by Edward Scissorhands, 21
Huot, Marie, 8
Hydropathes, 16

I
imaginationists, 10–12
Incipit Vita Nova (Beardsley), 27
Incipit Vita Nova (Beardsley) [illustration] (fig. 12), 27
Inheritance (Munch), 30

J
Journal des femmes (published by Martin), 8

L
La Nature, 3
L’Assiette au beurre, 17
   publisher of Léandre’s illustrations, 17
Le Charivari, 4
Le Figaro, 4
Le Foetus (Mossa) [illustration] (fig. 9), 21
Le Rire
   publisher of Somm’s illustrations, 16
Le Systeme du Docteur Forceps (Mossa) [illustration] (fig. 8), 21
Léandre, Charles, 21
   illustrations of human abnormalities in L’Assiette au beurre, 17–20
   use of fetus motif, 1
   Works
     Man. King of the Animals in his Principal Transformations, 20
     Monstres de la société, Les [illustration] (fig. 7), 17
     Paris, 20
L’Emancipation de la Femme, (Beauduin) [illustration] (fig. 3), 5
Leroy-Beaulieu, Paul, 6
Les foetus (repertoire) (Mac-Nab), 16
Lucian of Samosata
   True History, 26
Lucian’s Strange Creatures (Beardsley) [illustration] (fig. 11), 26

M
Mac-Nab, Maurice
   Les foetus (repertoire), 16
Madonna (Munch), 28, 29
Madonna (Munch) [illustration] (fig. 13), 26
Madonna in a Graveyard (Munch), 30
Maison de l’Art Nouveau, Paris (Siegfried Bing), 29
Man. King of the Animals in his Principal Transformations (Leandre), 20
Martin, Maria
   publisher, Journal des femmes, 8
McLaren, Angus
   Sexuality and Social Order, 9
Menon, Elizabeth K.
   Anatomy of a Motif: The Fetus in Late 19th-Century Graphic Art, 1–32
misogyny
   in 19th century French art, 14
Monster of Monsters, The. See Les Monstres de la société (Léandre)
Monster-mongers and other Retailers of strange sights (Swift), 22
Monstres de la société, Les (Léandre) [illustration] (fig. 7), 17
Morel, Benedict
   “hereditary degeneration” theory, 6
Mossa, Gustav Adolph. See Mossa, Gustav Adolphe
Mossa, Gustav Adolphe
   use of fetus motif, 1, 21
   Works
     Le Foetus [illustration] (fig. 9), 21
     Le Systeme du Docteur Forceps [illustration] (fig. 8), 21
Mossa, Gustav-Adolphe. See Mossa, Gustav Adolphe
mummified foetus (Crémière), 28
mummified foetus (Crémière) [illustration] (fig. 14), 26
Munch Museet, Oslo, 28, 30
Munch, Edvard
   and Symbolist, 28
   use of fetus motif, 1, 22, 28
   viewed by Eggum, 29
   viewed by Strindberg, 29
   Works
     Inheritance, 30
     Madonna, 28, 29
     Madonna [illustration] (fig. 13), 26
     Madonna in a Graveyard, 30
Musée des beaux-arts (Nice, France). See Musée des beaux-arts Jules Chéret
Musée des beaux-arts Jules Chéret, 21
Musée Dupuytren, Paris, 1, 3
   collection of fetal specimens, 1, 3
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 26

N
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Epstein Collection, 26
Natural History Museum, Paris
   collection of fetal specimens, 3, 28
Nordau, Max, 29
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Combined index, page 3
P
Palfyn, Jean, 10
Paré, Ambroise, 10
Paris (Leandre), 20
Paris s’amuse, 5
Parisienne and her Effects, The (Somm) [illustration] (fig. 5), 15
Petit, Gabrielle, 8
Photograph of medical specimen (Crémière) [illustration] (fig. 1), 1
Photograph of medical specimen (Crémière) [illustration] (fig. 2), 3
Physiologie de l’amour moderne (Bourget), 11
Physiologie du bas-bleu (Soulié), 10
   vignette illustration by Vernier (fig. 4), 10
Printmakers. France
   use of fetus motif, 14
Psychologues (Somm), 16

R
Redon, Odilon, 23
Renard, Jules, 4
Robin, Pierre
   collection of fetal specimens, 3
Roger-Milès, Léon
  on Henry Somm, 14
Runge, Otto Sigismund, 23

S
Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy de
   collection of fetal specimens, 3. See also Natural History Museum, Paris
Self Portrait as bottled fetus (Somm), 16
Self Portrait as bottled fetus (Somm) [illustration] (fig. 6), 16
Sexuality and Social Order (McLaren), 9
Somm, Henry, 14–17
   alcoholism, 16, 32
   in Symbolist movement, 1, 14
   use of fetus motif, 1, 14–16, 32
   viewed by Roger-Milès, 14
   Works
     Parisienne and her Effects, The; [illustration] (fig. 5), 15

Somm, Henry (continued)
     Psychologues, 16
     Self Portrait as bottled fetus, 16
     Self Portrait as bottled fetus [illustration] (fig. 6), 16
Sommier, François-Clément. See Somm, Henry
Soulié, Frédéric
   Physiologie due bas-bleu, 10
Strindberg, Arthur, 29
Swift, Jonathan
   Monster-mongers and other Retailers of strange sights, 22
Symbolist
   and Beardsley, 22
   and Munch, 28
   and Somm, 1, 14
   use of fetus motif, 1, 2, 13, 30, 32

T
True History (Lucian of Samosata), 26
Turquan, Victor
   Contribution à l’étude de la population et de la dépopulation, 4

V
Vacher de Lapouge, G., 6
Vernier, Jules
   vignette illustration for Frédéric Soulié, Physiologie du Bas-bleu [illustration] (fig. 4), 10
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 26
Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Auguste
   Claire Lenoir, 10

W
Weininger, Otto, 29
women. See also feminist movement
   and human abnormalities, 10–12
   and the Enlightenment, 10

Z
Zatlin, Linda
   views on Beardsley, 25
Zola, Emile
   Aux mères heureuses, 155
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