Welcome to Oxford Art Online
- The gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including the peer-reviewed, regularly updated Grove® Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- Includes over 200,000 articles that span ancient to contemporary art and architecture, as well as over 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures
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Zheng Xie
One of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, Zheng Xie innovatively integrated calligraphy with painting. His calligraphy combined a running cursive script with a sophisticated form of clerical script, yielding a distinct style that garnered acclaim in the Yangzhou art market where individualism and eccentricity were prized.
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Modernism and the avant-garde in Latin America
A diversity of expression defined modernist avant-garde artists in Latin America in the middle of the 20th century, including concrete art, geometric abstraction, and kinetic art, as well as returns to figuration. Despite their visible differences, these avant-garde artists all took on central issues of modernity.
In this update, Grove Art publishes 12 new articles, 39 emendations, and 56 article revisions. Benezit publishes 30 emendations.
Collection Guides
Join Benezit on a tour of unique art collections around the world! Written by experts and curators, our Collection Guides present the history and highlights of museums and galleries. Follow links to related texts in Oxford Art Online and around the web to learn more about the artists in these outstanding collections.
Grove Guide to the Art Market
Explore the new Grove Art subject guide on the art market, which brings together articles related to finance, art law, provenance, cultural heritage, collecting, connoisseurship, galleries, auction houses, and dealers.
UpdateGAO
UpdateGAO is an ongoing initiative to revise Grove’s articles in collaboration with their original authors, yielding updates to reflect recent developments and new scholarship. Have you contributed to Grove and want to update your article(s)? Let us know.
Latin American Art
Grove Art continues a major initiative to revise and expand Grove’s content on Latin American art and architecture. Led by Tom Cummins at Harvard University, this project includes scholarship on topics from the Pre-Columbian period to present day.
