Special Issues

Arts runs special issues to create collections of papers on specific topics. The aim is to build a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors who are experts in the subject and oversee the editorial process for papers. Papers published in a Special Issue will be collected together on a dedicated page of the journal website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Materializing Death and the Afterlife in Afro-Eurasian Art
edited by and Ellen Larson
submission deadline 10 Jun 2023 | Viewed by 463 | Submission Open
Keywords: art history; Afro-Eurasian art; death and memorialization; the afterlife; ritual; divination; ghosts; spirits; funerary art; place making for the dead
Framing the Virtual: New Technologies and Immersive Exhibitions submission deadline 15 Jun 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8424 | Submission Open
Keywords: immersive exhibitions; art and technology; virtual realities; histories of immersion; exhibition design; technologies of attention; installation and performance art
Relationship between Art, Architecture and Society
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1148 | Submission Open
Keywords: art; architecture; society; transdisciplinary; trialectics; vernacular
Curiosity in Early Modern Iberia
edited by Marina Brownlee
submission deadline 15 Jun 2023 | Viewed by 226 | Submission Open
Keywords: curiosity; Early Modern Iberia; encyclopedia; subjectivity; gender; Inquisition; voyeurism; novel; gender
The Many Gods of the Mediterranean: Water Iconographies (Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Ancient to Early Modern Art and Architecture)
edited by
submission deadline 21 Jun 2023 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open
Keywords: Mediterranean; water; iconography; religious studies; afterlife of antiquity; Neptune; deities; the Divine
Medieval Finger Rings from Christian and Jewish Contexts submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3524 | Submission Open
Paper-Thin: Imagining, Building and Critiquing Medieval Architecture
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2392 | Submission Open
Keywords: architecture; middle Ages; renaissance; paper; drawing; fictional buildings; craft
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Byzantine, Post-Byzantine and European Art History and Cultural Interchange submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2202 | Submission Open
Keywords: cross-cultural exchanges; migration; material culture; diplomacy; wall-paintings; icons; relics; manuscripts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Rethinking Non-Eurocentrism in Art History and Architecture History submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | Viewed by 482 | Submission Open
Keywords: non-Eurocentric historiographies; art theory; architecture theory; art history; art theory; postcolonial criticism
Middle East Art: Memory, Tradition, and Revival
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jul 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3725 | Submission Open
Keywords: Arab; Persian; Turkish; abstract; representational; political; spiritual; memory; traditional; contemporary
Colour: Art and Design in Urban Environments
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jul 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1956 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban environment; environmental colour design; colour in urban art; urban colour; colour methodology; colour identity; colour ambience
Picturing the Wound: Trauma in Cinema and Photography
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jul 2023 | Viewed by 512 | Submission Open
Keywords: trauma; cinema; photography; climate trauma; COVID19; therapy; cli-fi; science fiction; disability; digital media
Arts of the Northwest Coast submission deadline 8 Jul 2023 | Viewed by 133 | Submission Open
Keywords: Northwest Coast arts; First Nations; Indigenous Art history; material culture
Indigenous Latin American Indigenous Music in the Decolonial Era
edited by
submission deadline 10 Jul 2023 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open
After Globalization: Transnational Cultural Developments since 2020
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jul 2023 | Viewed by 188 | Submission Open
Keywords: contemporary art; performance studies; architecture; design; world music; globalization; Global South
Picasso Studies (50th Anniversary Edition)
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1217 | Submission Open
Keywords: Picasso; celebration; styles; media; influences; contrast
Modern and Contemporary Art: Topical Abstraction in Contemporary Sculpture submission deadline 31 Jul 2023 | Viewed by 688 | Submission Open
Keywords: contemporary sculpture; politics and art; abstraction; process and materials; aesthetics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Landscape Spoliation: Linking Latin America with the Mediterranean
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2023 | Viewed by 133 | Submission Open
Keywords: productive reuse; botanical and cultural luxuriance; modern and contemporary architecture; environmental design; landscape architecture; urban resilience; lost buildings
Im/Materiality in Renaissance Arts
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Aug 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1204 | Submission Open
Keywords: materiality; intangible cultural heritage; art; performance; renaissance
Representations of Islam in Germanophone Literature: Cultural Perspectives from the Enlightenment to the Present
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2023 | Viewed by 304 | Submission Open
Keywords: German literature and Islam; intercultural and interreligious discourses on Islam; imagology and narratology  ; religion as an aspect of cultural differences and similarities; German; Persian and Turkish literature
Orientalism on Stage: European Puppetry and the ‘Exotic’ Other submission deadline 31 Aug 2023 | Viewed by 269 | Submission Open
Keywords: puppetry; puppets; Asian ‘ Orient’ ; orientalism; Japanism; chinoiserie; puppet stage design; iconography of puppet shows; images of Asia in puppet theatre
Exploring Research-Based Theatre within Contemporary Theatre Education
edited by , Joe Salvatore and Kathryn Dawson
submission deadline 1 Sep 2023 | Viewed by 220 | Submission Open
Keywords: theatre; drama; research-based theatre; collaboration; arts-based research
Chinese-Language and Hollywood Cinemas submission deadline 15 Sep 2023 | Viewed by 503 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese-language cinema; Hollywood cinema; genre studies; studio system; stardom; blockbusters; global film networks; remakes
Ukraine Under Fire: The Visual Arts in Ukraine and Abroad Since 2014
edited by
submission deadline 25 Sep 2023 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open
Keywords: Ukraine; war; Russia; artists; cultural patrimony
Queer Latinx Artists and the Human Body submission deadline 30 Sep 2023 | Viewed by 314 | Submission Open
Keywords: U.S.; Latinx; LGBTQ; queer; art; politics; body; exhibitions
Aesthetics in Contemporary Cities submission deadline 30 Sep 2023 | Viewed by 290 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscapes of urban spaces; public realm aesthetics; aesthetics in the urban context; street art; aesthetics perception
Cultural Diplomacy and Informal Artistic Relations in East Central Europe in the 20th Century: A Global Perspective
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2023 | Viewed by 211 | Submission Open
Keywords: East Central Europe; 20th century cultural diplomacy; artistic networking; traveling art exhibitions; Transatlantic contacts; Global South; Eurasia
Feminist Histories of Irish Art
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2023 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open
Keywords: feminist historiographies; intergenerational relationships of affinity and influence; feminist and queer practices; Irish art; women art; Irish diaspora; 20th c. art; pre-20th c. art; feminist curatorship; contemporary feminist art histories
Synagogue Architecture Studies
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2023 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open
Keywords: architectural history; synagogue architecture; Jewish art; Jewish cultures; Jewish history
Japanese Buddhist Art of the 19th–21st Centuries
edited by Akiko Walley
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 325 | Submission Open
Keywords: Japanese Buddhist art; 19th century; early modern; bakumatsu; modern; contemporary; Edo; Meiji; Taishō; Shōwa; Heisei; Reiwa
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Space and Visual Art
edited by Gulsen Bal and Andreas Spiegl
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Affective Art
edited by
submission deadline 1 Nov 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1367 | Submission Open
Keywords: affective art; emotions in art; empathy in art; sentiment in art
Music vis-à-vis Other Arts in Eastern and Central Europe: Performance, Literature, Theatre, Art/Architecture and Visuality
edited by
submission deadline 1 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 291 | Submission Open
Keywords: music; visual art; Slavic music; east-European music; soviet music; Russian art; Slavic literature; classical music; jazz music; rock; conceptualism; avant-garde; Soviet culture
Situating Eurasia in Antiquity: Nomadic Material Culture in the First Millennium BCE
edited by
submission deadline 21 Nov 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1602 | Submission Open
Keywords: Eurasian nomads; material culture; Scythians; Saka; Sarmatians; Northern Black Sea region; South Siberia
Choreographing Society
edited by
submission deadline 21 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 295 | Submission Open
Keywords: dance in society; social choreography; dance and social activism
Visualizing Art of Sciences: Aesthetics, Technology, and Interdisciplinary
edited by Tami I. Spector
submission deadline 21 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 163 | Submission Open
Keywords: scientific representation; data visualization
Visual Arts and Design: Practice-Based Research submission deadline 30 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 575 | Submission Open
Keywords: art and design; practice-based research; arts-based research; participatory research; arts-based; action research
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Queerness in 18th- and 19th-Century European Art and Visual Culture
edited by Andrew Shelton
submission deadline 30 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open
Keywords: queer; art history; 18th- and 19th-century Europe
New Perspectives on Latin American and Caribbean Art
edited by
submission deadline 10 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 41 | Submission Open
Keywords: indigenous traditions; pre-Hispanic empires; Mexican Mural Movement; graphics and propaganda; Afro-Caribbean; syncretism; fantasy and surrealism; popular art; landscape
The Cathedral: Art and Power submission deadline 23 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 461 | Submission Open
Keywords: Middle Ages; cathedrals; art and power; patrons and audiences; memory
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Ancient Egyptian Art Studies: Art in Motion, a Social Tool of Power and Resistance
edited by and Alisee Devillers
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 216 | Submission Open
Keywords: ancient Egyptian art and design; production/consumption; emulation/competition; privileged elite/sub-elite; agentivity; innovation/archaism; power and social impact; identity and legitimacy
Visual Culture Exchange Across the Baltic Sea Region during the Long 19th Century
edited by and Bart Curtis Pushaw
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open
Keywords: Baltic; 19th century; exchange; Sweden; landscape
French Art and Culture from the 1780s to the 1900s
edited by Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophy; biology; geology; paleontology; psychology; matter and spirit; nature; unity
Medieval Art and Music between Heritage, Modernity, and Multi-Media
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open
Keywords: Medieval art; music; poetry; acoustics; liturgy; worship
The Visual and Material Culture of Dance in South Asia
edited by Pika Ghosh and Ajay J. Sinha
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 5 | Submission Open
Keywords: media; movement; sound; touch; ephemerality; embodiment; phenomenology
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