Open Access Journal: Ars Orientalis

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Open Access Journal: Ars Orientalis

[First posted in AWOL 24 January 2016, updated 22 August 2018]

Ars Orientalis
ISSN: 0571-1371

Each fall the Freer and Sackler Galleries publish, with the University of Michigan, a journal of the latest research in art of the Middle East and Asia. Titled Ars Orientalis, the journal is a collection of scholarship that crosses academic disciplines and aims to connect researchers, institutions, and ideas using one central theme per volume.

Thanks to a digitization effort made possible with help from Smithsonian Libraries and the Internet Archive, we can now offer Ars Orientalis volumes 1 to 41 free of charge to viewers worldwide. Flip through these pages online, or download files to your digital library for later reading.

Current volume:
Volume 47: New Research on Dress across Asia
Dress intersects with everyday life in a way that few areas of art history do. This intersection with the quotidian, and with popular culture throughout history, provides the student of dress with a valuable vantage point from which to address a range of questions.
Edited by Nancy Micklewright, Ars Orientalis 47 considers key issues in the study of dress in general, and dress in Asia more specifically. These include the divide between the timelessness of “traditional” dress and the fast-paced changes of what we call “fashion”; the categories of evidence that come into play; the ways in which Orientalism has effected the study of dress; and contemporary approaches to the field.

Upcoming Volumes
Theme suggestion? Find more information in Contributor Guidelines, and send proposals to Dr. Nancy Micklewright at micklewrightn@si.edu.

Ars Orientalis Back Issues
Thanks to a digitization effort made possible with help from Smithsonian Libraries and the Internet Archive, we can now offer Ars Orientalis volumes 1 to 41, and its predecessor Ars Islamica volumes 1-16 free of charge to viewers worldwide (read about the journal’s history here). Flip through these pages online, or download files to your digital library for later reading. Titles followed by an asterisk (^*) are out of stock in their print editions, but available digitally.

46 (2016)

45 (2015) ^*

44 (2014)

43 (2013)

42 (2012) ^*

41 (2011) ^*

40 (2010)

39 (2009)

38 (2008)

37 (2007)

36 (2006)

35 (2005)

34 (2004)

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32 (2002)

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29 (1999) ^*

28 (1998)

27 (1997) ^*

26 (1996) ^*

25 (1995) ^*

24 (1994) ^*

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22 (1992) ^*

21 (1991) ^*

20 (1990) ^*

19 (1989)

18 (1988)

17 (1987)

16 (1986) ^*

15 (1985) ^*

14 (1984)

13 (1982)

12 (1981) ^*

11 (1979) ^*

10 (1975)

9 (1973)

8 (1970)

7 (1968)

6 (1966) ^*

5 (1963) ^*

4 (1961) ^*

3 (1959) ^*

2 (1957) ^*

1 (1954) ^*

Supplement ^*

Ars Islamica Back Issues

15-16 (1951) ^*

13-14 (1948) ^*

11-12 (1946) ^*

10 (1943) ^*

9 (1942) ^*

8 (1941) ^*

7 (1940) ^*

6 (1939) ^*

5 (1938) ^*

4 (1937) ^*

3 (1936) ^*

2 (1935) ^*

1 (1934) ^*