The following journals can be found in the library. For on-campus online access, click the links below.
A-B | C | D-F | G-I | J-K | L-N | O-Q | R-V | W-Z
A-B
African Arts
Print access: 1975 – 1999; 2005 – 2009 (some issues missing); 2018 – Present
Online access (on campus only): 1967 – Present
African Arts presents original research and critical discourse
on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive
cultures. Since 1967, the journal has reflected the dynamism and
diversity of several fields of humanistic study, publishing richly
illustrated articles in full color, incorporating the most current
theory, practice, and intercultural dialogue. The journal offers readers
peer-reviewed scholarly articles concerning a striking range of art
forms and visual cultures of the world’s second largest continent and
its diasporas, as well as special thematic issues, book and exhibition
reviews, features on museum collections, exhibition previews, artist
portfolios, photo essays, edgy dialogues, and editorials. African Arts
promotes investigation of the interdisciplinary connections among the
arts, anthropology, history, language, politics, religion, performance,
and cultural and global studies.
Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry
Print access: September 2005 – 2009; September 2010; March 2012 – Present
Online access (on campus only): 1998 – Present
Afterall is a journal of contemporary art, providing a forum
for in-depth analysis of art’s context and seeking to inspire artists to
see art as an agency for change. Each issue provides the reader with
lengthy, well-researched articles, and includes different writers
discussing the same artist’s work from varied perspectives. Their
website includes additional articles not appearing in the print version.
American Arts Quarterly
Print access: 2005 – Present
Online access: Some content is available on their website.
American Arts Quarterly supports today’s burgeoning cultural revival
by championing creative individuals in a variety of artistic
disciplines.
Animation: an interdisciplinary journal
Print access: July 2008 – Present
Online access (On campus only): Current year plus one year previous
Animation is an international, peer-reviewed journal that
brings together research in film and media studies, architecture, art
and design, visual culture and creative practice. The journal seeks to
create an academic dialogue mapping the interdisciplinary nature of
animation studies. Articles address all known techniques, revealing
animation’s implications for other forms of time-based media.
Art Bulletin
Print access: March 1929 – 1937 ; Sep & Dec 1940 ; Dec 1941 ; Dec 1988 ; 1999 – Present (Some issues missing throughout)
Online access: 1975 – Present (Art & Architecture Source)
The Art Bulletin publishes leading scholarship in the
English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the
academy, museums, and other institutions. From its founding in 1913, the
journal has published, through rigorous peer review, scholarly articles
and critical reviews of the highest quality in all areas and periods of
the history of art. Articles take a variety of methodological
approaches, from the historical to the theoretical.
Art Journal
Print access: May 2007 – Present
Online access: 1974 – 2011 (Art & Architecture Source)
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.
Art in Print
Print access: 2015 – 2019
Online access (on campus only): 2011 – 2019
The Art in Print journal appeared six times a year in print and online. Each issue includes feature articles and reviews of recent books, exhibitions and new editions, as well as a survey of gallery, museum, workshop, and market news.
ARTMargins
Print access: 2020 – present
Online access (on campus only): 2012 – present
ARTMargins publishes scholarly articles and essays about contemporary art, media, architecture, and critical theory. ARTMargins studies art practices and visual culture in the emerging global margins, from North Africa and the Middle East to the Americas, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and Australasia. The journal acts as a forum for scholars, theoreticians, and critics from a variety of disciplines who are interested in art and politics in transitional countries and regions; postsocialism and neo-liberalism; postmodernism and postcolonialism, and their critiques; and the problem of global art and global art history and its methodologies.
C
Camera Obscura: feminism, culture, and media studies
Print access: Some issues from 1979 – 2006 ; 2007 – Present
Online access: 1976 – Present
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Since its inception, Camera Obscura has devoted itself to
providing innovative feminist perspectives on film, television, and
visual media. It consistently combines excellence in scholarship with
imaginative presentation and a willingness to lead media studies in new
directions. Its debates, essays, interviews, and summary pieces
encompass a spectrum of media practices, including avant-garde,
alternative, fringe, international, and mainstream.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Print access: None
Online access (on-campus only): www.chronicle.com
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news,
information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and
administrators.
Craft Research (CRRE)
Print access: 2012 – Present
Online access: 2012 – Present
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The aim of Craft Research is to advocate and promote
current and emerging craft research, including research into materials,
processes, methods, concepts, aesthetic and style. This may be in any
discipline area of the applied arts and crafts, including craft
education.
Critical Inquiry
Print access: 1974 – 2001 ; 2009 – Present
Online access (on campus only): 2002 – Present
Combining a commitment to rigorous scholarship with a vital concern for dialogue and debate, Critical Inquiry
presents articles by eminent critics, scholars, and artists on a wide
variety of issues central to contemporary criticism and culture. The
wide interdisciplinary focus creates surprising juxtapositions and
linkages of concepts, offering new grounds for theoretical debate.
Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture
Print access: July 2007; Spring 2012 – Present
Online access: 2007 – Present
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Critical Interventions focuses on the arts and visual
cultures of global Africa, which encapsulates African and African
Diaspora identities in the age of globalization. It provides a forum for
investigating the value of African art/cultural knowledge in the global
economy and its mediation protocols, reviewing in particular how this
value is created via the politics of reception and commodification. The
journal thus inaugurates a formal discourse on the aesthetics, politics,
and economics of African cultural patrimony and African ownership of
the intellectual property rights of its indigenous knowledge systems and
forms of cultural practice. Through this focus it stakes out a ground
on what promises to be the principal site of discursive engagement for
the field of African art history in this century.
D-F
Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum
Print access: 2009 – Present
Online access: 2009 – Present
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Design and Culture looks for rigorous and innovative
critical frameworks to explore ‘design’ as a cultural phenomenon today.
As a forum for critique, the journal features a substantial reviews
section in each issue. Moreover, in-depth essays analyze contemporary
design, as well as its discourse and representations. Covering a field
that is increasingly interdisciplinary, Design and Culture
probes design’s relation to other academic disciplines, including
marketing, management, cultural studies, anthropology, material culture,
geography, visual culture and political economy.
Design Issues
Print access: Mar 1997 – Sept 1997; Mar 1998; Apr 2005 – Present
Online access (on campus only): 2000 – Present
The first American academic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism, Design Issues
provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding
design. Regular features include theoretical and critical articles by
professional and scholarly contributors, extensive book reviews, and
illustrations. Special guest-edited issues concentrate on particular
themes, such as artificial intelligence, product seminars, design in
Asia, and design education. Scholars, students, and professionals in all
the design fields are readers of each issue.
The Design Journal
Print access: 2012 – 2016
Online access: 1998 – Present
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Established in 1998, The Design Journal is an international
refereed journal covering all aspects of design. The journal welcomes
articles on design in both cultural and commercial contexts. The journal
is published three times a year and provides a forum for design
scholars, professionals, educators and managers worldwide. It publishes
thought-provoking work that will have a direct impact on design
knowledge and that challenges assumptions and methods, while being
open-minded about the evolving role of design.
G-I
Harvard Design Magazine
Print access: 1997 – 2000 ; 2007 – Present
Online access: None
Harvard Design Magazine covers current topics in
architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning with a
critical eye. A theme serves as the touchstone for an issue; recent
examples include sustainability and design practices. Within the
boundaries of the selected theme, articles focus on culture, theory,
design, history, technology, and materials.
J-K
The Journal of Modern Craft
Print access: 2008 – Present
Online access: 2008 – Present
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The Journal of Modern Craft covers all aspects of craft as
it exists within the condition of modernity (conceived as roughly from
the mid-19th century to the present day), without geographical or
disciplinary boundary. Its editors welcome articles that analyze the
relevance of craft to architecture, design, contemporary art, and other
fields, as well as the central disciplines of clay, wood, fiber, glass,
metal, paper, etc. The overall editorial objective is to support a
mobile and wide-ranging contemporary discourse on craft as an issue in
all creative fields, while also being an authoritative historical voice
on the subject of craft as a field or movement in its own right.
L-N
The Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ)
Print access: 2012 – Present
Online access: 2012 – Present
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The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ)
is the first international peer-reviewed scholarly publication devoted
to artists’ film and video, and its contexts. It offers a forum for
debates surrounding all forms of artists’ moving image and media
artworks: films, video installations, expanded cinema, video
performance, experimental documentaries, animations, and other
screen-based works made by artists. MIRAJ
aims to consolidate artists’ moving image as a distinct area of study
that bridges a number of disciplines, not limited to, but including art,
film, and media.
n+1
Print access: 2006 – present
Online access (on-campus only): 2004 – present
n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics published three times yearly.
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art
Print access: 2013 – Present
Online access: 1994 – Present
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Nka focuses on publishing critical work that examines the
newly developing field of contemporary African and African Diaspora art
within the modernist and postmodernist experience and therefore
contributes significantly to the intellectual dialogue on world art and
the discourse on internationalism and multiculturalism in the arts. Nka
mainly includes scholarly articles, reviews (exhibits and books),
interviews, and roundtable discussions.
O-Q
October
Print access: 1981 – Present (some issues missing)
Online access (on campus only): 2001 – Present
At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October
focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various
contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, media, photography,
performance, sculpture, and literature. Examining relationships between
the arts and their critical and social contexts, October
addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative,
each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today’s
artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard.
Pacific Arts
Print access: January 2013 – Present
Online access: None
Pacific Arts welcomes articles on the art of the Pacific region, especially papers on all topics pertinent to the visual and performing arts of the peoples of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia, and Indonesia.
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
Print access: 1998 – Present
Online access (on campus only): 2002 – Present
PAJ is admired internationally for its independent critical thought and cutting-edge explorations. PAJ charts new directions in performance, video, drama, dance, installations, media, film, and music, integrating theater and the visual arts. Artists’ writings, critical commentary, interviews, and a special review section for performances and gallery shows are highlighted along with plays and performance texts from around the world.
The late-seventies in NYC generated a lively scene in experimental theatre, performance, dance, music, sound, video, film, clubs, and festivals. Numerous alternative spaces were opened up and publications started, though none were exclusively devoted to downtown performance, except Performance Art/LIVE Magazine. Many who appear in the pages of these archival issues are part of the still inchoate histories of performance, including Stuart Sherman, Michael Smith, Joan Jonas, and Cookie Mueller.
Access Performance Art Magazine, 1979 – 1980 and LIVE, 1980 – 1982. (On campus only.)
Philosophy of Photography (POP)
Print access: 2012 – 2016, 2019 - Present
Online access: 2012 – 2016, 2019 - Present
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Philosophy of Photography is a new peer-reviewed journal
devoted to the scholarly understanding of photography. It is not
committed to any one notion of photography nor, indeed, to any
particular philosophical approach. The purpose of the journal is to
provide a forum for debate on theoretical issues arising from the
historical, political, cultural, scientific and critical matrix of
ideas, practices and techniques that may be said to constitute
photography as a multifaceted form. In a contemporary context remarkable
for its diversity and rate of change, the conjunction of the terms
‘philosophy’ and ‘photography’ in the journal’s title is intended to act
as a provocation to serious reflection on the ways in which existing
and emergent photographic discourses might engage with and inform each
other.
Photographies
Print access: 2009 – Present
Online access: 2008 – Present
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Photographies seeks to construct a new agenda for
theorising photography as a heterogeneous medium that is changing in an
ever more dynamic relation to all aspects of contemporary culture.Photographies
aims to further develop the history and theory of photography,
considering new frameworks for thinking and addressing questions arising
from the present context of technological, economic, political and
cultural change.
Photography & Culture
Print access: 2012 – Present
Online access: 2008 – Present
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Photography & Culture is a refereed journal that is
international in its scope and inter-disciplinary in its contributions.
It aims to interrogate the contextual and historic breadth of
photographic practice from a range of informed perspectives and to
encourage new insights into the media through original and incisive
writing. Photography & Culture publishes research papers,
discursive critiques and reviews. It appears at a key moment as
photography evolves; once again, to embrace a technological change that
is shifting both contemporary usage and historic understanding.
Print Quarterly
Print access: March 2009 – Present
Online access: Indexed on their website.
Print Quarterly is the leading international journal
dedicated to the art of the print from its origins in the fifteenth
century to the present. It is peer-reviewed. The Journal publishes
recent scholarship on a wide range of topics, including printmakers,
iconography, social and cultural history, popular culture, print
collecting, book illustration, decorative prints, and techniques such as
engraving, etching, woodcutting, lithography and digital printmaking.
The journal strives to cover Asian, Latin American and African
printmaking as well as the Western tradition.
R-V
Third Text: critical perspectives on contemporary art and culture
Print access: 2001 ; 2003 – 2008 ; 2010 – Present
Online access: 1997 – Present
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Third Text is an international scholarly journal dedicated
to providing critical perspectives on art and visual culture. The
journal examines the theoretical and historical ground by which the West
legitimises its position as the ultimate arbiter of what is significant
within this field. Established in 1987, the journal provides a forum
for the discussion and (re)appraisal of theory and practice of art, art
history and criticism, and the work of artists hitherto marginalised
through racial, gender, religious and cultural differences. Dealing with
diversity of art practices – visual arts, sculpture, installation,
performance, photography, video and film – Third Text addresses
the complex cultural realities that emerge when different worldviews
meet, and the challenge this poses to Eurocentrism and ethnocentric
aesthetic criteria. The journal aims to develop new discourses and
radical interdisciplinary scholarships that go beyond the confines of
eurocentricity.
W-Z
World Art
Print access: 2013 – Present
Online access: 2011 – Present
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World Art encourages critical reflection at the
intersections of theory, method and practice. It provides a forum for
redefining the concept of art for scholars, students and practitioners,
for rethinking artistic and interpretive categories and for addressing
cultural translation of art practices, canons and discourses. It
promotes innovative and comparative approaches for studying human
creativity, past and present.