Oxford Art Online

The Grove Dictionary of Art (1996 ) is a 34 - volume encyclopedia of art. Written by 6,700 experts from around the world, include their 32,600 pages over 45,000 articles on art, artists, art critics, art collectors, or anything else that has to do with the world of art. The New York Times Book Review According, it is the " most ambitious undertaking in the art publishing at the end of the 20th century". Almost half of the content is devoted to non-Western topics and the authors come from 120 countries.

The topics range from Julia Margaret Cameron about Shoji Hamada, Korea to Timbuktu, the Age of Enlightenment to Marxism and of Yoruba masks to Abstract Expressionism. The entries include bibliographies and a variety of pictures. The lexicon is available in a standard output and bound in leather.

The Grove Dictionary of Art is published by Oxford University Press, which it acquired from Macmillan Publishers, 2003. Because the price is about $ 9,000, the printed version can be found usually only in libraries.

The Grove Dictionary of Art Grove Art Online as was available online since 1998. The site was expanded and renamed the Oxford Art Online. The offer is used by institutions and university libraries worldwide.