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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Arts and Refugees: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Vol. 2) submission deadline 30 Sep 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8867 | Submission Open
Keywords: arts; refugees; racism; cultural hegemonies; cultural policies; gender; intersectionality
New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics submission deadline 30 Sep 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4948 | Submission Open
Keywords: identity; representation; hybridity; cultural trauma; aesthetics; contemporary art
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 276 | 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 197 | 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 157 | Submission Open
Keywords: architectural history; synagogue architecture; Jewish art; Jewish cultures; Jewish history
Animals in Ancient Material Cultures (vol. 3) submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 22884 | Submission Open
Keywords: animals; antiquity; material culture; animal– human relations; iconography; art history; ancient history; classics; zooarchaeology; archaeology
Colour: Art and Design in Urban Environments
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4343 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban environment; environmental colour design; colour in urban art; urban colour; colour methodology; colour identity; colour ambience
Race and Architecture in the Iberian World, c. 1500-1800s submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 1995 | Submission Open
Keywords: race; regionalism; architecture; patronage; labor; Iberian; early modern
Arts: Art and Urban Studies submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1758 | Submission Open
Keywords: visual and performing arts; city; urban studies; imagined landscapes; digital and scientific art; film and city; urban semiotics
Japanese Buddhist Art of the 19th–21st Centuries
edited by Akiko Walley
submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 467 | 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 147 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Exploring Research-Based Theatre within Contemporary Theatre Education
edited by , Joe Salvatore and Kathryn Dawson
submission deadline 1 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 359 | Submission Open
Keywords: theatre; drama; research-based theatre; collaboration; arts-based research
Music vis-à-vis Other Arts in Eastern and Central Europe: Performance, Literature, Theatre, Art/Architecture and Visuality
edited by
submission deadline 15 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 622 | 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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5197 | 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 494 | 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 226 | Submission Open
Keywords: scientific representation; data visualization
Visual Arts and Design: Practice-Based Research submission deadline 30 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 735 | 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 346 | 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 79 | 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 584 | Submission Open
Keywords: Middle Ages; cathedrals; art and power; patrons and audiences; memory
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Visual Culture Exchange Across the Baltic Sea Region during the Long 19th Century
edited by and Bart Curtis Pushaw
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3365 | Submission Open
Keywords: Baltic; 19th century; exchange; Sweden; landscape
Picasso Studies (50th Anniversary Edition)
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2520 | Submission Open
Keywords: Picasso; celebration; styles; media; influences; contrast
Studies on Semiotics of Art
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2023 | Submission Open
Keywords: pictorial image; iconography; code theory; language of art; artistic function; artistic culture
Applied Musicology and Ethnomusicology
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1029 | 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)
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 303 | 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
Contemporary Japanese Media and Culture
edited by Griseldis Kirsch
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 215 | Submission Open
Keywords: Japanese media; gender; family; manga; anime and television; Japanese culture; media and society
Landscape Spoliation: Linking Latin America with the Mediterranean
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 193 | Submission Open
Keywords: productive reuse; botanical and cultural luxuriance; modern and contemporary architecture; environmental design; landscape architecture; urban resilience; lost buildings
Music, Technology and Media in the 21st Century
edited by David Bruenger
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 43 | Submission Open
Keywords: music technology; social media; video; software; virtual reality; augmented reality; data analytics; meta-data; curation; recommendation algorithm; sampling; bricolage/mashup
Computer Science Applications to Art and Art History
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open
Keywords: art; art history; AI; machine learning; computational creativity
Medieval Art and Music between Heritage, Modernity, and Multi-Media
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jan 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 528 | Submission Open
Keywords: Medieval art; music; poetry; acoustics; liturgy; worship
Affective Art
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2243 | Submission Open
Keywords: affective art; emotions in art; empathy in art; sentiment in art
Modern and Contemporary Art: Topical Abstraction in Contemporary Sculpture submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 868 | Submission Open
Keywords: contemporary sculpture; politics and art; abstraction; process and materials; aesthetics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
Queer Latinx Artists and the Human Body submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 417 | Submission Open
Keywords: U.S.; Latinx; LGBTQ; queer; art; politics; body; exhibitions
French Art and Culture from the 1780s to the 1900s
edited by Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open
Keywords: philosophy; biology; geology; paleontology; psychology; matter and spirit; nature; unity
East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music
edited by Ken Ueno and Maiko Kawabata
submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open
Art Glass Studies for a Changing World—The International Year of Glass submission deadline 29 Feb 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4081 | Submission Open
Keywords: art glass; studio glass; socio-political commentary; new narratives; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); sustainability; equality; diversity inclusivity (EDI)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Arts)
Chinese-Language and Hollywood Cinemas submission deadline 29 Feb 2024 | Viewed by 743 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese-language cinema; Hollywood cinema; genre studies; studio system; stardom; blockbusters; global film networks; remakes
Aesthetics in Contemporary Cities submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 607 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscapes of urban spaces; public realm aesthetics; aesthetics in the urban context; street art; aesthetics perception
Black Artists in the Atlantic World
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6590 | Submission Open
Keywords: Black Atlantic; Atlantic world; Americas; Artist; Artist biography; Colonial; Empire
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 117 | Submission Open
Keywords: media; movement; sound; touch; ephemerality; embodiment; phenomenology
Dance Performance Studies
edited by Angela Pickard
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 94 | Submission Open
Keywords: dance; performance; embodiment; practice-based; identity/ies
History of Medieval Art submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open
Keywords: architecture; sculpture; painting; sumptuary arts; cultural transfer; written documentation
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