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''Grove Art Online'' is the online edition of ''The Dictionary of Art'', often referred to as the ''Grove Dictionary of Art'', and part of Oxford Art Online, an internet gateway to online art reference publications of
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, which also includes the online version of the ''
Benezit Dictionary of Artists The ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists'' (in French, ''Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'') is an extensive publication of bibliographical information on painters, sculptors, designers and engravers create ...
''. It is a large
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of art, previously a 34-volume printed encyclopedia first published by Grove in
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and reprinted with minor corrections in 1998. A new edition was published in 2003 by Oxford University Press.


Scope

Written by 6,700 experts from around the world, its 32,600 pages cover over 45,000 topics about art, artists,
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s, art collectors, or anything else connected to the world of art. According to ''
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'' it is the "most ambitious art-publishing venture of the late 20th century". Almost half the content covers non-Western subjects, and contributors hail from 120 countries. Topics range from Julia Margaret Cameron to Shoji Hamada,
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, the Enlightenment to
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, and Yoruba masks to
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. Entries include bibliographies and a vast number of images.


Print editions

The dictionary is still available in a standard hardcover edition, though the leather-bound version appears to be out of print. Various smaller specialized redactions have been published, such as ''The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts'', (Editor, Gordon Campbell, OUP 2006, ),''The Grove Dictionary of Materials and Techniques in Art'' (OUP 2008, ), ''From David to Ingres: Early 19th-Century French Artists (Grove Dictionary of Art)'' and so on. The ''Grove Dictionary of Art'' is published by
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print book ...
, who acquired it from
Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publi ...
in 2003.


Online edition

''The Dictionary of Art'' was first offered online on 12 November 1998 by Grove Dictionaries (New York) under the title ''The Grove Dictionary of Art Online''. The online version is now published by Oxford University Press, is updated three times a year, is available by subscription and includes some extra content. In the UK, many public libraries offer it free to their online users using their library membership number and a PIN to log in. An umbrella site, Oxford Art Online, also includes the ''
Benezit Dictionary of Artists The ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists'' (in French, ''Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'') is an extensive publication of bibliographical information on painters, sculptors, designers and engravers create ...
'' and other art reference works: ''The Oxford Companion to Western Art'', the '' Encyclopedia of Aesthetics'', and ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms''."About"
at the Oxford Art Online website.


See also

* ''
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and t ...
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References and sources

;References ;Sources * Jane Turner (Editor). ''The Dictionary of Art''. 1996.


External links

* {{Authority control 1996 non-fiction books Art history books Encyclopedias of art Art and architecture dictionaries British online encyclopedias Oxford University Press