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Oxford Art Online

Indexing Yes Updated Quarterly and annually
Full Text Yes Interface Oxford University Press

Oxford Art Online offers access to Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. Oxford Art Online includes biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. This functionality allows users greater access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online. Thematic timelines and learning resources also provide users with powerful tools for navigating the content, and context-sensitive help pages are available throughout the site to guide users through the features and functionality.

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About Grove Art Online:

Grove Art Online is today's foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 volumes) – the landmark reference work containing more than 45,000 articles (more than 21,000 biographies and 500,000 bibliographical citations) contributed by 6,700 scholars from 120 countries. Grove Art Online is maintained with a regular update program to articles and bibliographies. Each year, new articles are added to enhance the coverage of significant areas of the visual arts with the participation of more than 1,000 international art historians. All new content continues to be written and peer reviewed by scholars and specialists.

Grove Art serves as a unique guide to all the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, as well as the decorative arts. The Dictionary of Art ranges far both geographically and historically; it features unparalleled coverage of Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Mongolia, China, India, the Islamic world, Japan, Korea, Native North America, Pacific and Aboriginal Australia, Pre-Columbian America, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Ancient Near East, and Ancient Rome. Providing depth as well as breadth, The Dictionary of Art examines important art forms and key issues of design, taste, function, and patronage, illuminating them in light of the cultural context in which they developed.

Features of Grove Art Online:

* 45,000 articles
* Worldwide coverage--from Oceania to North America to Japan and Africa
* Over 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles
* 41,000 articles on visual art from the prehistoric times to the present
* 21,000+ biographies of artists, patrons, collectors, writers, critics, and others
* 15,350 illustrations throughout the text
* Links to searchable image databases and editorially selected links to over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery web sites around the world
* Access cross-references in the text with a click of the mouse
* Articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.

More about the Grove Dictionary of Art from Oxford and about Oxford Art Online from Oxford Art Online

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