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Grove Art Online
Grove Art Online, www.groveart.com, provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.
The benefits of Grove Art Online are considerable:
- All 45,050 articles can be found in seconds with a sophisticated keyword search. Register for a free trial and try it for yourself
- Access cross references in the text with a click of the mouse
- Over 40,000 links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world
- Updates, new articles and new image links will be added as an on-going feature of this dynamic product.
Special Features
- 45,000+ signed articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present.
- 26 million words covering both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewellery, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more).
- 500,000+ bibliographical citations which can be searched independently or with the text.
- 30,000+ links to colour images from high-quality museum and other art sites. Links are monitored regularly, and many offer information that expands material presented in The Dictionary.
- 100,000+ images from The Bridgeman Art Library.
- 130,000 searchable images: search by artist’s name, title of work, dates, location, or keyword.
- Search 21,000+ biographies (of artists, architects, patrons, collectors, dealers, theorists, writers, and scholars) by birth/death dates, places, nationality and occupation (in addition to name searches).
- Links to 1,000+ useful web sites covering people, places, art forms, styles and movements, institutions, museums, and other organisations, exhibitions, and more.
- Multicultural scope: articles are written by 6,800+ contributors from 120 countries—every country recognised by the UN has an entry.
- Highlighted cross-references within articles lead to related information.
- Related Articles list at the end of every entry, helping to expand or refine your search.
- Four Search Modes:
- Boolean—and/or/not searches
- Concept—the search engine matches your term with related terms
- Free-text—search any word in the Dictionary
- Pattern searching—use this handy feature when you’re not sure how to spell a term.
- Annual updates incorporating new articles and the latest research.
- Award-winning Index; search The Dictionary’s 720,000 entries.
- User support: download a Quick Reference Users Guide, Help screens, a 24-hour e-mail answer system, and toll-free (in the U.S.) telephone customer service.
- Extensive coverage of World Art;—unparalleled depth of information covering the civilisations and cultures of Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Mongolia, China, India, the Islamic World, Japan, Korea, Europe, North America, South America, Pacific and Aboriginal Australia, Pre-Columbian America, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and the Ancient Near East.
Grove Art Online is your guide to the artistic traditions of the world’s leading cultures, countries, cities, towns, and regions, covering important archaeological sites, monuments, and buildings.
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Specifications and orders
Published November 1998
North and South America
ISBN: 1-884446-05-1
Contact
Oxford University Press Customer Support
+1 800-334-4249 ext. 6484
onlinesubscriptions@oup-usa.org
UK and Rest of World
ISBN: 0333-771028
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