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- Description
- Oxford (Grove) Art Online includes access to:
- Grove Art Online
- The Oxford Companion to Western Art
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
- The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
Grove Art Online contains over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts -
painting, sculpture, graphic arts,
architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. Topics covered
in Grove Art Online
include:
- biographies of painters, sculptors, graphic artists, architects,
furniture makers, ceramists, photographers, illuminators, calligraphers
and more
- increased emphasis and new articles on women artists, as part of the multi-art women artist's
project
- biographies of patrons, collectors, agents and dealers
- Articles on criticism, theory, and philosophy of art
- survey articles on the cultures and civilizations of the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe,
the Americas and Australia
- country surveys for every country recognized by the United Nations, from Afghanistan to
Zambia
- more than 1,350 articles on towns and cities
- artistic styles and movements in both Western and non-Western art
- major art forms
- subject-matter and iconography
- materials, techniques and conservation
- general issues in art
Additionally, Grove Art Online provides access to 5,000 images through partnerships with
major organizations such as the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Resource, Art
Images for College
Teaching (AICT), and numerous international galleries and individual artists.
Images can be searched from the main page in the "Image Only" search box. Images are
also accessible through links
embedded within articles, or by clicking a tab at the top of articles entitled "Images".
Due to copyright restrictions,
NOT ALL THE IMAGES available in the print edition of the Grove Dictionary of Art are
available in the online edition.
Oxford (Grove) Art Online also provides shorter articles on a variety of art topics from
The Oxford Companion to Western
Art, as well as definitions of art terms from The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art
Terms, and lengthy entries on over 500
philosophers from The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
The source of a particular article will be indicated under the brief description in the search
results.
- Help
- From the opening screen, click on HELP, on the top right-hand side of
the screen, to get additional information about the database
For more information see the guided tour here.
- Dates covered
- Prehistoric times to the present day.
- Updating frequency
- Ongoing.
- Sources
- Prehistoric times to the present day.
- Type of coverage
- Comprehensive.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Grove Art Online
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
- Funder
- VALE - Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey
- Producer/content provider
- Oxford University Press
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Oxford University Press
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