Art enables people to define their worlds, express themselves, and show their beliefs and values. Making, using and learning from artworks are fundamental to human social life, imagination and sensory engagement. Through art, ideas take physical and tangible form and become available for new forms of seeing, understanding and writing.
World Art is a peer-reviewed journal for scholars, students and art practitioners which considers art across time, place and culture. It aims to bring new insights and analysis to a wider, global audience. The journal promotes experimental and comparative approaches for studying human creativity, past and present. It provides a forum for rethinking artistic and interpretive categories and for addressing cultural translation of art practices, canons and discourses.
World Art aims to:
• Explore what art is for people around the globe
• Encourage contributors to investigate the distribution of art, its dissemination and display; to review notions of centres and peripheries, and to challenge categories like the mainstream and the marginalized
• Welcome contributions that promote inter-cultural, inter-national, inter-practice and inter-disciplinary concerns. It encourages critical reflection at the intersections of theory, method and practice
• Enable new histories to emerge, aiming to complement traditional scholarly narratives and presentations about art
Submissions can take the form of:
• Research articles based on individual or collaborative research
• Visual essays prioritising images with a critical commentary
• Dialogues between scholars and practitioners
• Interventions exploring ideas across cultures, disciplines and practices
• Position papers giving voice to topical themes and debates
Audio and video materials and additional colour images may be included for the online version.
The journal is an English language publication, but submissions in other languages may be considered.
All contributions are peer-reviewed. The Editors are supported by an international Advisory Board.
