June 25, 2009
Oxford Art Online
New Features of Oxford Art Online (Grove Art Online)
The Spring update to Oxford Art Online is now available. This update brings you renewed and enhanced Oxford coverage of both Classical art and materials and techniques in art.
Oxford introduces 28 new articles relating to Classical art including the Collection and display of Classical art, Roman Spain, and a biography of Dioskourides. New content on materials and techniques in art include enlightening articles on Motion picture film and Magnetic tape.
With this update are included nearly 50 beautiful new images from across the globe depicting the materials and techniques that artists and craftspeople use to create objects.
While all of these images are accessible via search and browse, here are a few highlights:
· Mukudj mask of the Punu people
· Tapestry-woven (kesi) rank badge showing a lion
· Olmec jadeite celt with incised profile of a deity
· Limoges portrait by Léonard Limosin showing Henri II
· Bamboo brushpot by Gu Jue showing a landscape genre scene
We are also introducing the first half of the content created in collaboration with New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology to include Fashion in Oxford Art Online. This month you’ll see biographies of designers such as Lucien Lelong, Lucile, Rudi Gernreich, and Rei Kawakubo, with more than 75 stunning accompanying images including a Madame Grès Turandot evening dress, a ! classic design by Givenchy, and a Robert Piguet design drawing.
About Oxford Art Online Oxford Art Online (listed as Grove Art Online on the Grace Doherty Library website) is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.
Oxford Art Online has been created with the latest in online technology to give users a robust and unique research experience. Precise search and browse capabilities allow users to refine their results by source and subject categories. Users can also choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. This functionality allows users greater access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online. Thematic timelines and learning resources also provide users with powerful tools for navigating the content, and context-sensitive help pages are available throughout the site to guide users through the features and functionality. Oxford Art Online is the most extensive, authoritative and easily searchable online art resource available today.