Publications
Overview
CAA publishes three scholarly journals in art and art history, two in print and one online, a weekly email newsletter, directories of graduate programs, and more. The publications program also provides grants to subsidize the publication of scholarly manuscripts in art, art history, and visual studies.
CAA recently published a book on the history of the organization, called The Eye, the Hand, the Mind: 100 Years of the College Art Association (New York: College Art Association; New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011). Edited by a former executive director, Susan Ball, the book features the efforts of fourteen additional authors.
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Publications
The Art Bulletin
The foremost journal for art historians in English, The Art Bulletin was established in 1913 to publish original scholarly research in all areas of the history of art and architecture.
Art Journal
Published since 1941, the quarterly Art 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
Founded in 1998, the born-digital caa.reviews is devoted to critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies, with new reviews posted continuously.
CAA News
Published since 1976, CAA News presents information on CAA’s activities, programs, and conference; articles on the arts and academia; member achievements; and more. Since September 2010, CAA News is published as a weekly email, to which you can subscribe.
Directories
Published in late 2011, the new editions of Graduate Programs in Art History and Graduate Programs in the Visual Arts list over 650 programs in fine art and design, art and architectural history, curatorial studies, arts administration, and more.
Abstracts
This Annual Conference publication, exclusively available online beginning with the 2010 conference in Chicago, provides a record of session statements and abstracts from session chairs and speakers. Abstracts contains summaries of current research on varied topics by leading artists, scholars, curators, and other professionals in the visuals arts.
Monographs on the Fine Arts
From 1944 to 1999, CAA published fifty-six scholarly works by leading art historians and emerging scholars in a series of Monographs on the Fine Arts. Many titles are available through the ACLS Humanities E-Book project.
Services
US and Canadian PhD Dissertations
Dissertations in art history and visual studies from US and Canadian institutions, both completed and in progress, are published annually in caa.reviews.
JSTOR
CAA’s print journals, The Art Bulletin and Art Journal, are available online (up to 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. Log into your CAA account for JSTOR access.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
CAA offers individual annual subscriptions and discounted institutional subscriptions to the ACLS Humanities E-Book, an online, cross-searchable database of over 3,700 monographs in the humanities, including many CAA monographs.
Standards and Guidelines
Several of CAA’s Standards and Guidelines relate to publishing in the arts:
- Statement on Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality
- Copyrights and Permissions in Scholarly and Educational Publishing (under review)
- Standards for Retention and Tenure of Art Historians
- Peer Review in Publications
- Statement on the Importance of Documenting the Historical Context of Objects and Sites
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 Fund
From this fund, CAA awards grants from the Millard Meiss Publication Fund 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
Through a generous gift from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, CAA awards Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grants support to 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 gave awards in 2006 and 2007.
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.
