Article call for "American Periodicals and Visual Culture"

In Fall 2010 American Periodicals will be publishing a special issue on
?American Periodicals and Visual Culture?, guest edited by Janice Simon
(Art History, University of Georgia) with Jared Gardner and Steve Fink.
Although periodical scholarship has traditionally tended to emphasize the
word, visual imagery of all sorts has been an important component of
periodicals, even before our post-modern visual deluge. We are calling
for essays that will address any aspect of visual culture in American
periodicals from the colonial period through WW II, including but not
limited to the intersections and ironies of text and image juxtapositions;
the meaning of visual ephemera?frontispiece or margin illustrations,
headings, advertisements, magazine covers, cartoons, photographic inserts;
the role of a specific art editor, director, or reviewer; studies of
periodicals devoted to the visual arts; the importance of the photographic
or illustrated essay.

For consideration for the Special Issue on American
Periodicals and Visual Culture, please submit your essay by January 1,
2010 to amperosu.edu. For more information about the journal, including
submission guidelines and style sheet, please see our website at:
http://americanperiodicals.osu.edu