VIC191 : Artistic Creation and Public Issues

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Oxford Reference Online
Contains 175+ dictionaries, language reference and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Searches across multiple sources published by Gale Thompson. Provides Futher Reading and Additional Sources.
Grove ART Online
Comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, published by Grove's Dictionaries and Oxford University Press.
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FIND INFORMATION ABOUT:
- creative practitioners, creative peers, contemporaries (biographical dictionaries provide biographical sketches)
- creative movements (dictionaries provide definitions and context)
- creative works (encyclopedias list the creative works produced by a practitioner)
- current events (almanacs and handbooks provide current information on social, economic and political topics)
- public issues (historical atlases provide context and timelines for contemporary issues)

IDENTIFY CREATIVE WORKS:
- names of works by creative pracitioners or their peers (references/further readings identify the objects. ie. images, sounds, objects, moving images, creative texts)