JOURNAL OF ART HISTORIOGRAPHY
Call for contributors

This journal will publish its first issue on 31st December 2009 and will
appear every six months thereafter. It intends to offer a focus for the
study of art historiography. Its mission statement reads:

This journal exists to support and promote the study of the history of art
historical writing. Much of this practice has been shaped by traditions
inaugurated by Giorgio Vasari, Winckelmann and German academics of the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Consequent to the expansion of
universities, museums and galleries, the field has evolved to include
areas outside of its traditional boundaries.

There is a double danger that contemporary scholarship will forget its
earlier legacy and that it will neglect the urgency and rigour with which
those early debates were conducted. The earlier legacy remains embedded in
'normal' practice. More recent art history also stands in need of its own
scrutiny. The journal is committed to studying art historical scholarship,
in its institutional and conceptual foundations, from the past to the
present day in all areas and all periods.

This journal will ignore the disciplinary boundaries imposed by the
Anglophone expression 'art history' and allow and encourage the full range
of enquiry that encompassed the visual arts in its broadest sense as well
as topics now falling within archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and
other specialist disciplines and approaches. It will welcome contributions
from young and established scholars and is aimed at building an expanded
audience for what has hitherto been a much specialised topic of
investigation.

Besides articles, it will accept notes, reviews, letters and translations.
It will be published every June and December and include both
peer-reviewed and commissioned contributions.

The Editor invites submissions from interested scholars.

For more information see:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/arthistoriography/