Art Journal
Mission Statement
Covers: Lin + Lam, film stills from Unidentified Vietnam No. 18, 2007, 16mm film, 30 min. (artwork © Lin + Lam)
The mission of Art Journal, founded in 1941, is to provide a forum for scholarship and visual exploration in the visual arts; to be a unique voice in the field as a peer-reviewed, professionally mediated forum for the arts; to operate in the spaces between commercial publishing, academic presses, and artist presses; to be pedagogically useful by making links between theoretical issues and their use in teaching at the college and university levels; to explore relationships among diverse forms of art practice and production, as well as among art making, art history, visual studies, theory, and criticism; to give voice and publication opportunity to artists, art historians, and other writers in the arts; to be responsive to issues of the moment in the arts, both nationally and globally; to focus on topics related to twentieth- and twenty-first-century concerns; to promote dialogue and debate. The journal, which welcomes submissions from authors and artists worldwide and at every career stage, is published four times a year in spring, summer, autumn, and winter by the College Art Association.
Purchasing Information
Art Journal is available as a benefit of CAA membership.
Limited quantities of single issues are available for purchase.
Art Journal is indexed in BHA, Art Index, and Arts and Humanities. Back issues may also be read online in JSTOR, ProQuest, and other online archives.
