Oxford Art Online

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Description: Formerly Grove Art Online, the database contains over 45,000 articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art (editor Jane Turner, 1996: 34 vols) on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. Also contains biographies, bibliographies, and thousands of links to color images and home pages from the world's leading museums, picture libraries, and galleries around the world. Browse by the following subject areas: African Art; Australian and New Zealand Art; Chinese Art; Classical Art; Latin American and Caribbean Art; Northern Renaissance Art; and Twentieth Century Art. Users can also explore particular themes such as: Art and Art Forms; Geography; People; Styles and Cultures; and Time Periods.

Grove Art Online also provides access to all of the articles from:

• The Oxford Companion to Western Art (ed. Hugh Brigstocke, 2001) - OCWA contains over 2,800 entries on major subjects in the visual arts covering major museums, artists, styles, periods, techniques, materials, and more.
• Encyclopedia of Aesthetics - Feature more than 600 articles by more than 500 globally recognized art historians, philosophers, and theorists, this encyclopedia surveys the full breadth of critical thought on art, culture, and society; it is a comprehensive survey of major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts – from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, dance, television, film, and popular culture. Of special interest are in-depth surveys of Western aesthetics and broad coverage of non-Western traditions and theories of art.
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms - provides 1,800 entries on art terms, critical periods, and styles in the visual arts. It includes materials, techniques, and foreign terms essential for navigating the current visual climate and features clear definitions of movements and media, from Baroque to Minimalism, aquatint to raku, and canvas to Venetian glass.

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