Pretty as a picture

A picture is worth a thousand words. How do you find that expressive work? You can use Google images. You'll pull up all sorts of art work, photographs, drawings, etc. That's all you'll get - the image (and the URL for the web site the image was taken from).

In GALILEO, Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art Online) provides access to Grove Art Online, a collection of art encyclopedias and image collections. Users can also choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. Content includes 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 time lines and learning resources also provide users with tools for navigating the content.

Oxford Art Online offers an easy search screen. You can look for all sources which will include biographies of artists and articles on the art work. You may also limit your search to the images. The full search lets you know if the result is a subject entry , biography, or an image. There is a helpful box on the left of the search results that lets you show only images or only subject entries or only biographies. You can change the results listing without redoing the search.

There aren't as many images as you'll pull up from Google images but you'll definitely get more substance with your search! Your Georgia librarian has the current password to access GALILEO from home.

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