We are pleased to announce the creation of Visual, Performing & Fine Arts Research Network (ArtsRN), which focuses on 13 major areas of scholarship. SSRN's newest network provides a worldwide online community for visual, performing & fine arts scholars and for the sharing of ideas across a broad spectrum of early stage research, including working papers, conference papers, preprints, etc.



The following ArtsRN areas are available and subscriptions will be free during the start-up phase.

ART & SCIENCE

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Description: This area includes content on the intersection between visual culture and scientific disciplines including but not limited to the history of the technical image; studies of images in the history of science; and studies of maps, diagrams, and charts.


ART CONSERVATION & RESTORATION

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Description: This area includes content on art conservation and restoration, including studies of particular restoration projects and theoretical debates.


ART HISTORY

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Description: This area includes content focused on art history and conservation. Topics include all periods and geographies of art, general overviews, specialist studies, and technical material.


ART LAW

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Description: This area includes content on the legal aspects of visual arts, including art trade, copyright, studies on artistic institutions, etc.


ART MARKET STUDIES

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Description: This area includes content on all aspects of the business of works of art from all regions and historical periods, including art valuations, art as investments and the economics of art. Methods range from quantitative and economic analyses to descriptive and theoretical studies.


ARTS ADMINISTRATION & MUSEUM STUDIES

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Description: This area includes content on the study of cultural institutions from the point of view of heritage studies, management theory, and museum studies.


ARTS EDUCATION

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Description: This area includes content on education as it pertains to visual, performing, and fine arts. Topics include the use of various types of the arts in school curricula, psychological studies, the types of artistic pedagogy, arts education funding, and the incorporation of art into other subjects.


FASHION HISTORY & THEORY

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Description: This area includes content on fashion history and theory. Topics include fashion theory and criticism, and costume history among other related areas.


FILM, MEDIA & TV STUDIES

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Description: This area includes content on all aspects of the study of film, including criticism, history, narrative film, animation, experimental film, and video art, as well as media and TV studies.


GRAPHIC ARTS & DESIGN

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Description: This area includes content on graphic arts and design, covering topics such as the history and theory of particular fields of design, including: industrial, digital, textile, drawing, and printmaking.


THEATER & PERFORMANCE STUDIES

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Description: This area includes content on all aspects of the study of theater and performance, including history, theory, and criticism. Topics include theater, performance, and dance.


VISUAL, PERFORMING & FINE ARTS EDUCATOR: COURSES, CASES & TEACHING

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Description: This area includes content that supports high quality student learning in visual, performing and fine arts and related disciplines, and is designed for the sharing of teaching materials. This includes casebooks, reviews of casebooks, lecture notes, class summaries, outlines, supplementary materials (for your own or someone else's book), syllabi, problem sets, PowerPoint presentations, videos, and other teaching materials.


VISUAL, PERFORMING & FINE ARTS NEGATIVE RESULTS

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Description: This area includes content in which negative results were found. Negative results are instances in which the expected outcome of the research was not borne out by the results. The negative results eJournal includes papers that have controversial or provocative results that challenge established theories as well as papers that replicate or support findings published elsewhere.



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