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Call for Submissions for Special Issue of Arts: "Autonomy in Art" - Free for Publication

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Posted by: Arts
Deadline: Tue, February 28th, 2023

There have been substantial debates about the relationship of art to society over the last 200 years. The development of socially engaged arts practices in the 19th and 20th century from Arts and Crafts to Bauhaus to contemporary participatory arts has been central to notions of cultural value, engagement, participation and democratic inclusivity. Yet there are some problematic aspects to these debates and practices including the instrumentalisation of art to progressive and indeed totalitarian regimes, the privileging of process over product and a suspicion towards what we might call autonomous art. This Special Issue of Arts aims to explore this notion of autonomy across all art forms and politics and the ways that we might both reassert and critique the autonomy of art from social purpose; to paraphrase Adorno, perhaps the social function of art is not to have a social function. We welcome papers that address these key debates and critiques.

Dr. Martyn Hudson

Guest Editor: Martyn Hudson, University of Northumbria. For more inforfmation about Dr. Hudson,  https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/h/martyn-hudson/

Submission Planning 

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 30 November 2022.

Submission of final manuscripts: 28 February 2023. 

Submission Criteria:  

Abstract and a short biography should be sent to Sylvia Hao (sylvia.hao@mdpi.com) Final articles, in English only, should be at least 5000 words long; a 150-word abstract and 5 keywords should also be submitted.   Authors can include image files (tables, maps, graphs, photographs …) in ..jpg; they should ensure that images are free of rights (or that rights have been obtained).   Each article will be peer-reviewed by at least two anonymous referees.

Posted on Thu, September 1st, 2022
Expires on Tue, February 28th, 2023

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