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Credit: Courtesy, Women's Art Journal
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Credit: Courtesy, Episteme
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A journal dedicated to women artists and images of women in the visual arts has found a new home at Rutgers, thanks to an art historian who took on the publication’s editorial duties when it was about to be discontinued.
Woman’s Art Journal, a biannual, peer-reviewed publication founded in 1980, was formerly published by founder Elsa Honig Fine. She was retiring and had announced that the journal would cease publication when she spoke to Joan Marter, professor of art history in New Brunswick, last June.
“This is the only surviving academic journal dedicated to women in the visual arts,” Marter said. “I wanted to keep it going, as a resource for scholars and as an opportunity for art historians to publish their writings on women artists.”
She also had experience: She had served as editor of a special issue of Art Journal in 1994. She also serves on the editorial board of the Rutgers University Press and is on the board of directors of the College Art Association. Last fall, she negotiated with Old City Publishing, a Philadelphia publishing company, to handle the publication of the journal. The company also publishes the Women’s Review of Books.
“The arrival of the prestigious Woman’s Art Journal, under the editorship of one of our most distinguished professors, Joan Marter, is a signal event for Rutgers and the department of art history,” said Archer St. Clair Harvey, acting chair of the department. “It serves as a worldwide forum for discussion of feminist issues relating to the arts, and brings a feminist perspective to topics ranging from antiquity to the present day. Having this journal ‘in house’ raises the energy level of the department for all of us – students, professors and the wider university community.”
Marter said she took on the editorial tasks in part because Woman’s Art Journal has a unique mission that could not be easily replicated. Despite many advances, critical attention to the art of men is far more prevalent than the recognition given to women artists, and much scholarly research focuses on male artists, she said.
The journal is available through a number of indexes, including JSTOR, www.jstor.org, a nonprofit digital archive. The journal is an attractive opportunity for scholars, as it makes their research available to a wide audience. (Complete back copies of all the journal’s articles will be available this year on JSTOR.)
The international journal has contributors from Great Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Japan and Australia in addition to the United States. It includes historical research written by art historians and critics, as well as studies of images of women as depicted by male and female artists.
Ute Tellini, a graduate of the doctoral program in art history at Rutgers, serves as book editor; associate editor Margaret Barlow, who had served with Fine, will stay on as journal co-editor.
“I’m very proud that Rutgers is a sponsor of Woman’s Art Journal,” Marter said. “It brings well-deserved attention to the quality and quantity of women’s scholarship at this university.”
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Truth may seem subjective and elusive, but that hasn’t stopped philosophers from pursuing it through the ages. A new philosophical journal that recently relocated its editorial operations to Rutgers looks at that search from a different vantage point. Episteme, the Journal of Social Epistemology (wwww.episteme.eu.com">www.episteme.eu.com), reports on a field that is a relatively new branch of an ancient philosophical discipline.
“Social epistemology emerged in the last decade,” said Alvin Goldman, editor in chief and Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy. “It’s centered in philosophy but also includes social sciences, such as economics, political science, information science and the sociology of knowledge. While earlier epistemology held that the search for truth is an individual matter, social epistemology recognizes that there is a social orientation to our attempts to discern the truth.”
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