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Chinese-Language and Hollywood Cinemas submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 13764 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese-language cinema; Hollywood cinema; genre studies; studio system; stardom; blockbusters; global film networks; remakes
Cultural Diplomacy and Informal Artistic Relations in East Central Europe in the 20th Century: A Global Perspective
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10118 | Submission Open
Keywords: East Central Europe; 20th century cultural diplomacy; artistic networking; traveling art exhibitions; Transatlantic contacts; Global South; Eurasia
Applied Musicology and Ethnomusicology
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4728 | Submission Open
Keywords: applied musicology; applied ethnomusicology; contemporary music; opera; music festivals; internet platforms; 21st-century avant-garde
(This special issue belongs to the Section Musical Arts and Theatre)
Byzantine, Post-Byzantine and European Art History and Cultural Interchange submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15233 | Submission Open
Keywords: cross-cultural exchanges; migration; material culture; diplomacy; wall-paintings; icons; relics; manuscripts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Medieval and Early Modern Finger Rings from Christian and Jewish Contexts submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9810 | Submission Open
Medieval Art and Music between Heritage, Modernity, and Multi-Media
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2821 | Submission Open
Keywords: Medieval art; music; poetry; acoustics; liturgy; worship
Japanese Buddhist Art of the 19th–21st Centuries
edited by Akiko Walley
submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5166 | Submission Open
Keywords: Japanese Buddhist art; 19th century; early modern; bakumatsu; modern; contemporary; Edo; Meiji; Taishō; Shōwa; Heisei; Reiwa
Aesthetics in Contemporary Cities submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2591 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscapes of urban spaces; public realm aesthetics; aesthetics in the urban context; street art; aesthetics perception
History of Medieval Art submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2848 | Submission Open
Keywords: architecture; sculpture; painting; sumptuary arts; cultural transfer; written documentation
Landscape Spoliation
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 423 | Submission Open
Keywords: productive reuse; botanical and cultural luxuriance; modern and contemporary architecture; environmental design; landscape architecture; urban resilience; lost buildings
Art from the Medieval Mediterranean: A Critical View
edited by Justine M. Andrews
submission deadline 1 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 261 | Submission Open
Keywords: Mediterranean; art history; medieval; Byzantine; Islamic; Jewish
Renaissance Rhapsody: Miscellany and Multimodality in Early Modern Europe
edited by Catharine Ingersoll
submission deadline 13 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 147 | Submission Open
Keywords: multimodality; interdisciplinarity; Early Modern Europe
Art Market
edited by Steven Adams
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 699 | Submission Open
Keywords: art; market; commodification; cultural heritage; resistance; globalism; aestheticization; early modern; modernism
Al-Bustān: Recreational Estates in the Islamic West and Sicily—Architectures and Spaces of Prestige as Symbols of Power
edited by and Julio Navarro Palazón
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 285 | Submission Open
Keywords: Al-Bustān; belvedere; qubba; botanical gardens; Nymphaeum; pools
Advances in Rock Art Studies
edited by David Whitley
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 246 | Submission Open
Keywords: rock art; analytical and interpretive approaches; archaeological theory
Jewish Media and Visual Culture
edited by Maya Balakirsky-Katz
submission deadline 1 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open
Keywords: media; Jews; mass communication; modernism; nationalism; emancipation
In the Center and on the Periphery: Russian and Soviet Art and Visual Culture
edited by K. Andrea Rusnock
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 549 | Submission Open
Keywords: painting; icon; postcard; postage stamp; Russia; Soviet; artist; performance
Art and Visual Culture—Social, Cultural and Environmental Impacts
edited by Mika Markus Merviö
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 248 | Submission Open
Keywords: impacts of art; interpretations of art; values; meanings; environment and art; politics and art
What is ‘Art’ Cinema?
edited by Colette Balmain and Katarzyna Ancuta
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 128 | Submission Open
Keywords: film studies; art cinema and the auteur; independent and experimental cinema; the blockbuster versus the contemplative; economies of value; aesthetics and the image; global cinema; slow cinema
Active Women in the Art Market: 1950–2020. Mapping Gallerists, Collectors, Maecenas, Auctioneers, Curators in Emerging Markets submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open
Keywords: art market; Global South; feminism; female studies; women gallerists; women art dealers; women collectors; women artists; women curators; gender equality
Early Modern Global Materials, Materiality, and Material Culture
edited by Michelle Moseley-Christian
submission deadline 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open
Keywords: early modern; global; materiality; material culture; materials; sensory object; temporality; haptic response; physical object; art history
The Role of Museums in the Digital Age
edited by Mirian Tavares
submission deadline 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open
Keywords: museums; digital era; digital art; social media; archives; art and technology; digital literacy
The Detailed Study of Films: Adjusting Attention submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 410 | Submission Open
Keywords: analysis and interpretation; art and context; attention; conscience; film studies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Film and New Media)
The Impact of the Visual Arts on Technology
edited by and
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 161 | Submission Open
Keywords: visual arts; philosophy of technology; technoaesthetics; philiosophy of art; speculative inquiry; cosmotechnics; dispotif; critical art practice
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Classicism in the Domestic Arts and Furnishings of Renaissance Europe
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open
Keywords: renaissance; furnishings; tableware; classicism; domestic arts; European arts; metalwork; woodwork; ceramics
Film and Visual Studies: The Digital Unconscious
edited by Tom Conley
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open
Keywords: psychoanalysis; visual studies; digital process; media; mediation
Film Music
edited by Nick Poulakis
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 63 | Submission Open
Keywords: film music; film sound; cinema; musicology; film studies; cultural studies
Human-Animal Interactions in Western Art
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 176 | Submission Open
Keywords: human– animal interactions; art history; animal studies; Western art
Traumatic Tales: Creative Representations of Difficult Pasts
edited by Beata Batorowicz and Kate Cantrell
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 21 | Submission Open
Keywords: art; trauma; trauma-informed care; narrative; storytelling; self-care
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