Publications
CAA publishes three scholarly journals in art and art history, two in print and one online, and a bimonthly newsletter. The publications program also provides grants to subsidize the publication of scholarly manuscripts in art, art history, and visual studies.
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Publications
The Art Bulletin
The foremost journal for art historians in English, this quarterly was established in 1913 to publish original scholarly research in all areas of the history of art and architecture.
Art Journal
Published since 1941, this quarterly journal devoted to twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and visual culture is one of the most vital, intellectually compelling, and visually engaging periodicals in the field.
caa.reviews
This online publication is devoted to the peer review of new books and exhibitions relevant to the fields of art, art history, and architecture, with new reviews posted continually.
CAA News
Published since 1976, CAA News presents information on CAA’s activities, programs, and conference; articles on the arts and academia; interviews with artists, scholars, writers, and curators; member achievements; and more.
Abstracts
This Annual Conference publication provides a record of session statements and abstracts from session chairs and speakers. Abstracts contains summaries of current research on varied topics by leading scholars, artists, curators, and other visual-arts professionals.
Monographs on the Fine Arts
CAA has published fifty-six scholarly works by leading art historians and emerging scholars in this series.
Services
US and Canadian PhD Dissertations
Dissertations in art history and visual studies, both completed and in progress, are published annually in caa.reviews. (Dissertations formerly appeared in the June issue of The Art Bulletin and the CAA website but will no longer be listed there after the end of 2008.) Please consult our submission guidelines.
JSTOR
CAA’s print quarterly journals, The Art Bulletin and Art Journal, are available online (not including the three most recent years) in the JSTOR digital archive. JSTOR is accessible through many institutional libraries. Individual CAA members without an institutional affiliation may subscribe to JSTOR (for CAA’s journals only) for $20 annually, payable when you join CAA or renew your membership. Enter the Account Log In for JSTOR access.
Publishing Guidelines
Standards and GuidelinesSeveral of CAA’s Standards and Guidelines relate to publishing in the arts:
- CAA Statement on Conflict of Interest
- Copyrights and Permissions in Scholarly and Educational Publishing
- CAA Statement on Tenure Publishing
Editorial Workshop
CAA has made available the summary of an editorial workshop held in summer 2008, where the advantages and legal risks of publishing—journals, websites, conference sessions, publications, and the like—in an international environment were discussed, and where protective practices and policies that could be considered by CAA in the future were explored.
Publishing Grants
Millard Meiss Publication FundFrom this fund, CAA awards grants to support the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy.
Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant
With a second generous gift from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, CAA awards grants support book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art and visual studies, and in related subjects, that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy.
CAA Publication Grant
The CAA Publication Grant has been suspended for 2008 and 2009.
Intellectual Property and the Arts
Intellectual Property in the Arts provides links to CAA’s activities on intellectual-property matters as well as to useful websites and resources of other organizations. Read about artists’ copyrights, issues in publishing, and CAA’s involvement in orphan works.
