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Call for Publications
Theme: Rethinking Through Art
Subtitle: East and West
Publication: Rivista di Estetica
Date: Issue No. 1/2022
Deadline: 28.2.2021
Over the centuries, art has been a prominent form of cultural
exchange between the East and the West. This role has become even
more prominent in the last three hundred years. Western painting and
music introduced by European missionaries shaped the tastes of the
Chinese imperial courts since the 17th century. The “Chinoiserie”
style inspired by Chinese aesthetics contributed a great deal to the
dynamics of the 18th-century European art-world. Japanese Ukiyo-e –
the art of the “floating world” – was believed to have a significant
impact on the Impressionists. It becomes evident that contemporary
artists from the East and the West have formed a collaborative
community of creativity. While more and more art historians are
shifting part of their research interest to the Eastern art
traditions, looking into them in their own right, or investigating
art history in a greater trans-cultural context, many philosophers of
art still remain relatively reluctant to either philosophize about
art from a cross-cultural perspective, or try to conceptualize its
central issues by drawing on diverse cultural experiences and studies
of the non-Western histories of art. In the last several decades, the
field of philosophy of art and aesthetics in the West has seen many
great theoretical achievements, which enable us to think about and
create art in a profoundly meaningful way, bringing art more than
ever closer to “pure” philosophy. But, when we look closely at these
influential philosophical inquiries into art, we find they are, by
and large, exclusively inspired and dominated by the European art
tradition and engages research materials from very specific origins,
often shunning potential challenges from non-Western art as well as
the historical facts of artistic interaction and the on-going
confluence of artistic practice in our age.
This issue aims to reopen a ground for rethinking some fundamental
philosophical questions about art within a cross-cultural context. We
encourage reflection on any important topic in the philosophy of art
on the basis of Eastern-Western comparison or synthesis. We
especially prefer submissions addressing the following issues: the
definition of art, ontology of art, art and creativity, art and
self-cultivation.
Articles must be written in English or Italian, and should not exceed
40.000 characters, notes and blank-spaces included.
Advisory Editors:
Xiao Ouyang (Wuhan University, China)
Tiziana Andina (Università di Torino, Italy)
Submission:
ouyang.xiao@whu.edu.cn and rivista.estetica@gmail.com
Deadline for submission: Feb 28th, 2021
Rivista di Estetica publishes thematic issues about philosophical
topics. It is one of the oldest philosophical journals in Italy,
established in 1956 as a quarterly journal about aesthetics and more
general philosophical themes.
Rivista di Estetica practices double-blind refereeing and publishes
both in Italian and English.
The editor of Rivista di Estetica is Tiziana Andina, Full Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy.
The managing editor is Carola Barbero, Associate Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Turin, who follows the day-to-day
functioning of Rivista di Estetica, as well as the contacts with
authors and referees. All editorial correspondence should also be
addressed to: carola.barbero@unito.it
The open-access digital edition is now available on Revues.org
The journal is indexed by: SCOPUS, Web of Science Core Index AHCI,
The Philosopher’s Index, Répertoire bibliographique de la
philosophie, ERIH, Articoli italiani di periodici accademici (AIDA),
Catalogo italiano dei periodici (ACNP), Google Scholar.
Contact:
Xiao Ouyang & Tiziana Andina
Rivista di Estetica
ouyang.xiao@whu.edu.cn and rivista.estetica@gmail.com