Grove Dictionary of Art
The Dictionary of Art , as its bibliographically correct title, often referred to as The Grove Dictionary of Art , is a 34-volume encyclopedia of the fine arts published in 1996 by Grove's Dictionaries Inc. in New York, a subsidiary of Macmillan Publishers .
Written by 6,700 experts from around the world, its 32,600 pages include over 45,000 articles on the visual arts, artists , art critics , art collectors and everything else related to the art world. The The New York Times Book Review , according to it is the "most ambitious companies in the Art Publishing at the end of the 20th century". Almost half of the content is devoted to non-Western topics, and authors come from 120 countries. Since the price was around $ 9,000, the printed version is usually only found in libraries.
The topics range from Julia Margaret Cameron to Shoji Hamada , Korea to Timbuktu , the Age of Enlightenment to Marxism and from Yoruba masks to Abstract Expressionism . The entries also include bibliographies and a variety of figures. The lexicon is available in a standard bound edition and in leather binding.
The Grove Dictionary of Art has been available online as Grove Art Online since 1998 . In 2003, Oxford University Press acquired the Grove Dictionary of Art from Macmillan Publishers. The website has been expanded and renamed Oxford Art Online . The offer is used by institutions and university libraries worldwide.
See also
Bibliographical information
- Jane Turner (Ed.): The Dictionary of Art . New York, Grove / Macmillan, London 1996. ISBN 1-884446-00-0 (hardcover, first edition). ISBN 0-19-517068-7 (hardcover, new edition). ISBN 0-333-74939-1 (leather-bound edition).
literature
- Richard Brilliant: The Dictionary of Art . In: The Art Journal 56, 1997, 2, pp. 82-92.