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Smith, Patti Mapplethorpe, Robert Warhol, Andy Joplin, Janis
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Nineteen Sixties Nineteen Seventies New York (N.Y.) Art |
While not official subject headings, these keywords can be very fruitful for your research. Try to also think of other terms such as these. Keyword searches look at all the information in the book or article record including title, author, abstract, table of contents, etc. It always helps to think of synonyms, as the way one person would describe something is not the same way another would
New York City
Beat Poets
Postmodern Art
Bohemian New York
Using the correct words to search will help you find relevant information. Different authors and search tools use different words to describe the same concepts, so it is useful to have a list of similar and related terms in your arsenal when you set out to search for relevant information. The process of creating these alternative terms is called brainstorming terms or concept mapping.
EXAMPLE
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