Visual Arts Research
Last updated ISSN 0736-0770
Visual Arts Research is published by University of Illinois Press in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Visual Arts Research concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Art Education and Development
- Art, Politics, and Modernism
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Public Spaces through Art
- Literacy, Media, and Education
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
Key facts
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0736-0770, 2151-8009 |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 560 |
| Publishing since | 1987 |
| Journal website | var.press.illinois.edu |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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