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Call for Papers
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to contribute a research article
or a comprehensive review for consideration
and publication in Arts (ISSN 2076-0752). Arts
is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly open
access journal which provides a forum for
scholarship and visual exploration in the visual,
performing and ancient arts.
Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word
or LaTeX can be submitted online to the
Editorial Office at www.mdpi.com. Detailed
instructions for authors are also available online:
www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/instructions/
Arts is published in open access format
research articles, reviews and other contents
are released on the Internet immediately after
acceptance. The scientific community and the
general public have unlimited and free access to the
content as soon as it is published.
Arts is a new journal and publication fees are
fully waived for papers submitted in 2015.
However, a fee of 250 CHF may apply for those
articles that need major editing and formatting and/
or English editing.
We would be pleased to welcome you as one of
our authors.
Prof. Dr. Michelle Facos
Editor-in-Chief
Arts Editorial Office
E-Mail: arts@mdpi.com
Tel. +41 61 683 7734
www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/
Aims & Scope
Arts publishes forms of art production and practices, studies,
criticism and theories from artists, historians and all other writers in the
arts focused to promote dialogues and debates. Articles and essays
devoted to a general readership intersted in arts as well as those for
students and professors in high school are also welcome.
Arts welcomes submissions from authors and artists around the world
and is published quarterly in March, June, September and December.
Subject areas:
Arts Today
Visual Art: Painting; Sculpture; Architecture; Collage and Decollage;
Assemblage; Installation; Calligraphy, Drawing, Printmaking and
Engraving; Conceptual Art; Photography; Urban Art including Street Art
and Graffiti
Performing and Media Art: Performance; Music and Dance; Theatre;
Cinema and Video; Net-Art and New Media
History of Arts
Western Art: Prehistoric Art; Ancient Art: Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt,
Etruscan, Arcaic Greek Art and others; Classical Art: Classical Greece,
Helenistic and Roman Art; Middle Ages Arts: Bizantine, Paleo-
Christian, Pre-Romanic, Romanic and Gothics; Trecento and
Renaissance (Quatrocento, Cincuecento and Mannerism); Baroque;
Arts of XVIIIth Century; Arts of XIXth Century: Historical Vanguards
(Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism), Informalism,
Abstract, Expressionism, Neodadaism, Pop Art, New Realism,
Expanded Field Sculpture, Conceptual Art, Post-Modern Art
Old Civilizations, Tribal and Eastern Arts: Chinese, Korean and
Japanese Arts; Indian Arts; Islamic Arts; Pre-Columbian Arts; African
Arts; Oceanic Arts
Arts and Society
Theory and Aesthetic of Arts; Historiography; Art Criticism;
Museology and Museography; Women and Arts. Women in Arts;
Arts and Society including Economy of Arts; Art Auctions and
Galleries; Arts and Science; Arts and Technology
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Open access is mainly a response to what is known as the serials
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Many university libraries around the world have had to cancel
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to the easy access to their research papers. The interested public is
also able to access research works, giving higher transparency to
the outcome of taxpayer money spent on research.
Publication Ethics Statement
Arts is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Arts takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review
together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add
high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication.
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