Archives of Asian Art
Encyclopedia
Archives of Asian Art is an annual academic journal
covering the arts
of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. Each issue contains articles by scholars of art
and a selection of outstanding works of Asian art acquired by North American museums during the previous year.
The journal was established in 1945 as the Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America. It obtained its current title with volume 20 in 1966. The journal is owned by the Asia Society
, which in 2007 changed its publisher from Brepols
to the University of Hawaii Press
.
Volumes 1-55 (1945–2005) are available on JSTOR
; recent volumes are available on Project MUSE
.
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
covering the arts
The arts
The arts are a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. It is a broader term than "art", which as a description of a field usually means only the visual arts. The arts encompass visual arts, literary arts and the performing arts – music, theatre, dance and...
of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. Each issue contains articles by scholars of art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
and a selection of outstanding works of Asian art acquired by North American museums during the previous year.
The journal was established in 1945 as the Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America. It obtained its current title with volume 20 in 1966. The journal is owned by the Asia Society
Asia Society
The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States and around the world Hong Kong, Manila, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, and Melbourne...
, which in 2007 changed its publisher from Brepols
Brepols
Brepols was once one of the largest printing companies of the world and one of the main employers in Turnhout . Besides its printing business, Brepols is also active as a publisher...
to the University of Hawaii Press
University of Hawaii Press
The University of Hawaii Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaii.The University of Hawaii Press was founded in 1947, with the mission of advancing and disseminating scholarship by publishing current research in all disciplines of the humanities and natural and social...
.
Volumes 1-55 (1945–2005) are available on JSTOR
JSTOR
JSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...
; recent volumes are available on Project MUSE
Project MUSE
Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...
.