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Online Resources
From Oxford University PressSlide2
This presentation gives a brief description of
Oxford
Art Online It tells you what Oxford Art Online is how it can help you how to look for information in itThe presentation will take about 5 minutesSlide3
www.oxfordartonline.com
Oxford Art Online is the gateway to the
multi-award
winning Grove Art
Online -
the ultimate authority on all aspects of visual arts
worldwide - from
prehistory to the present day.
The site gives access to the entire content of the print edition of Grove Art as well as
other titles
.
Grove
Art Online
contains more than 48,000 signed articles,
over 22,000
biographies, over 6,000 art images and over 40,000 editorially selected image links to museums and galleries providing essential visual support for art history scholarship.Slide4
www.oxfordartonline.com
If your subscription includes the
B
enezit
Dictionary of Artists you will have access to it from this site as well. Slide5
www.oxfordartonline.com
To look for information on an artist, an artistic movement, art in a particular country, a subject such as floors or gardens, or even artistic materials, simply type into the box at the top right.
monetSlide6Slide7
This is the main article on Claude Monet.
If you scroll down the article, you will notice that there are several images embedded in the text.
Click on an
image
to
expand it.Slide8
Click on the Images tab at the top to see all the images on one page.
Scroll down this page to see a list of Monet works held in galleries around the world.Slide9
You can
search
for an image of a particular work directly, even if you do not know the name of the artist or the title.
waterfallSlide10
Notice that the word ‘waterfall’ does not appear in the title of this piece.
However, there is a waterfall in the background of the painting.Slide11
A
free discovery service, the Oxford
Index,
lets
you search
across Oxford’s digital academic content
and
find related content every step of
the way.Slide12
Practice
Now you have had a brief introduction, why not explore for
yourself? Have a go at finding the answers to these questions.Which nationality was Piet Mondrian?Which two Spanish artists painted ‘Las Meninas’?Which artist is chiefly associated with pointillism?Can you see any of Mark Rothko’s works in Australia?Slide13
Further help
T
o find out more, pleasetake a guided tourread about the sitelook for a live online demoemail us at onlinemarketing@oup.comSlide14
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