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Landscape Spoliation
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 607 | 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 412 | 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 347 | Submission Open
Keywords: multimodality; interdisciplinarity; Early Modern Europe
Art Market
edited by Steven Adams
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1322 | Submission Open
Keywords: art; market; commodification; cultural heritage; resistance; globalism; aestheticization; early modern; modernism
Advances in Rock Art Studies
edited by David Whitley
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5449 | 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 238 | Submission Open
Keywords: media; Jews; mass communication; modernism; nationalism; emancipation
Medieval and Early Modern Finger Rings from Christian and Jewish Contexts submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10935 | Submission Open
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 709 | Submission Open
Keywords: painting; icon; postcard; postage stamp; Russia; Soviet; artist; performance
Artistic Imagination and Social Imaginaries–Polysemous Readings of Historical Travelling Accounts
edited by and Eduardo Abrantes
submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 251 | Submission Open
Keywords: colonialism; artistic research; medieval travel accounts; practices of inclusion/exclusion; decolonial methodologies; social imaginaries; transdisciplinary collaborations; indigenous and traditional knowledge practices; embodiment
History of Medieval Art submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4507 | Submission Open
Keywords: architecture; sculpture; painting; sumptuary arts; cultural transfer; written documentation
Art and Visual Culture—Social, Cultural and Environmental Impacts
edited by Mika Markus Merviö
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 636 | Submission Open
Keywords: impacts of art; interpretations of art; values; meanings; environment and art; politics and art
Portraiture in the Arts of China
edited by Shane McCausland and Mariana Zegianini
submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 169 | Submission Open
Keywords: China; art; visual culture; portraiture; gender; ethnicity; subjectivity
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 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 435 | Submission Open
Keywords: Al-Bustān; belvedere; qubba; botanical gardens; Nymphaeum; pools
Aesthetics in Contemporary Cities submission deadline 25 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3215 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscapes of urban spaces; public realm aesthetics; aesthetics in the urban context; street art; aesthetics perception
What is ‘Art’ Cinema?
edited by Colette Balmain and Katarzyna Ancuta
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 248 | 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
Enhancing Roman Wall Painting: Innovative Artisans, Techniques, and Spaces
edited by Lisa Hughes
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open
Keywords: Roman; wall painting; artists; materials; techniques; visual culture; spatial environments; material culture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Active Women in the Art Market: 1950–2020. Mapping Gallerists, Collectors, Maecenas, Auctioneers, Curators in Emerging Markets submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 281 | Submission Open
Keywords: art market; Global South; feminism; female studies; women gallerists; women art dealers; women collectors; women artists; women curators; gender equality
Contemporary Visual Culture in Conflict Zones and Contested Territories
edited by Ronit Milano
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 238 | Submission Open
Keywords: contestation; war; visual culture
Early Modern Global Materials, Materiality, and Material Culture
edited by Michelle Moseley-Christian
submission deadline 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 271 | 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 593 | Submission Open
Keywords: museums; digital era; digital art; social media; archives; art and technology; digital literacy
Film Music
edited by Nick Poulakis
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1287 | Submission Open
Keywords: film music; film sound; cinema; musicology; film studies; cultural studies
The Detailed Study of Films: Adjusting Attention submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 561 | 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 343 | 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)
Film and Visual Studies: The Digital Unconscious
edited by Tom Conley
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 184 | Submission Open
Keywords: psychoanalysis; visual studies; digital process; media; mediation
Classicism in the Domestic Arts and Furnishings of Renaissance Europe
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open
Keywords: renaissance; furnishings; tableware; classicism; domestic arts; European arts; metalwork; woodwork; ceramics
Human-Animal Interactions in Western Art
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1317 | Submission Open
Keywords: human– animal interactions; art history; animal studies; Western art
The Visual and Material Culture of Dance in South Asia
edited by Pika Ghosh and Ajay J. Sinha
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 359 | Submission Open
Keywords: media; movement; sound; touch; ephemerality; embodiment; phenomenology
The Arts and Urban Development
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 222 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban arts; contemporary art; urban development; creative city; creative industries; culture-led regeneration; intangible cultural heritage
Traumatic Tales: Creative Representations of Difficult Pasts
edited by Beata Batorowicz and Kate Cantrell
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 140 | Submission Open
Keywords: art; trauma; trauma-informed care; narrative; storytelling; self-care
On Screen Arts—the Arts of the Past in Contemporary Mass Media
edited by Sharon Khalifa-Gueta
submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open
Keywords: cinema; television; reception; art; history; transformation
Medieval Art and Music between Heritage, Modernity, and Multi-Media
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3359 | Submission Open
Keywords: Medieval art; music; poetry; acoustics; liturgy; worship
Gluttony and the Art of Huge Appetites: Film, Video Art and Expanded Media
edited by Livia Alexander
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 380 | Submission Open
Keywords: gluttony; excess; consumption; film; video art; expanded media
New Discoveries in the Art of the Bronze Age
edited by Marie N. Pareja
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open
Keywords: art history; archaeology; Bronze Age; ancient; material culture
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