Call for Papers │ INDEX JOURNAL Issue No. 4: SECESSION

Call for Papers
INDEX JOURNAL is calling for submissions for Issue No. 4, 2022, themed SECESSION
Submissions due: 4 April 2022
Editors: Cameron Hurst and Giles Fielke
Issue No. 4 SECESSION
That secession is treason, and that all who uphold it by menace or force, or by giving aid in any degree, or in any manner, are traitors, and legally subject to capital punishment.
Gardner’s Institutes, 1860
The term secession is usually used to refer to any withdrawal from a federation or political state. In the context of modern art, secession also refers to the artistic withdrawal from the art academies which occurred in the late-nineteenth century.
INDEX JOURNAL invites art historical papers on withdrawals, both collective and individual, from states, institutions, academies, trade, corporate bodies, and other milieus. We are looking for submissions that address forms of atomisation, decolonisation, postcolonial nationalism, anti-globalism, as well as responses to the cosmopolitanism that has underpinned the research agendas of this century’s global art histories.
Papers should be no more than 7,500 words and in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style (Notes and Bibliography)

Only completed papers considered

Submissions due 4 April 2022
About INDEX JOURNAL

INDEX JOURNAL is an independent peer-reviewed art history publication based in Melbourne, Australia. The journal presents original scholarship by art historians from all specialisations, treating the art of the past with the same urgency as it does the art of the present. For each issue, INDEX JOURNAL invites a guest editor to raise a polemic that calls for pressing art-historical attention.

We aim to provide an international forum for the publication of original academic research in all areas and periods of art history. We publish the work of established and emerging researchers working within the fields of art history, architectural history, curatorship, politics and aesthetics, visual culture, philosophy, historiography and museum studies.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with editors@index-journal.org well before the due date

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