About this journal

Art in Translation is the first journal that takes as its mission the publication of quality English language translation of the most significant and interesting articles on visual culture presently available only in their source languages. These texts are drawn from all areas of the visual arts: painting and drawing, sculpture, architecture, design, installation works and digital media. They introduce the English-speaking readership to new areas of scholarship and to writings that share as their main qualities excellence and originality.

Advised by an extensive network of scholars in art history and visual culture across the globe, Art in Translation actively seeks out those texts that deserve to be known to the broadest possible audience. It combines scholarly acumen with a readability that appeals to a broad audience, and is intended not only for specialists working in a single field of enquiry, but for anyone who is looking for new insights into visual art scholarship and practice across the world.

Over the years, Art in Translation has been building up a library of texts and images on art across the world, which offers an invaluable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching across a wide range of disciplines. In addition to texts on contemporary visual culture, the journal also publishes key texts from earlier decades and centuries, which have never before been available in English.

Art in Translation also acts as a vehicle for original research into the translational processes (interlingual, intermedial, and/or intercultural) found in art and visual culture as well as in the discipline of art history itself. Past issues devoted to questions of translation include: ‘Art History and Translation’ (Vol. 2.2, 2010), ‘Visual Culture and Translation’ (Vol. 4.1, 2012), ‘Chinese Art and Translation’ (Vol. 5.1, 2013), and ‘Translating Cultures in the Hispanic World’ (Vol. 7.1, March 2015). From 2017 onwards, Art in Translation will devote one peer-reviewed issue per year to topics of translation.

Art in Translation is published four times per year principally in electronic format. This reflects radical changes in library purchasing policy and reading practice, as both increasingly favour digital formats over hard copy. Digital technology not only makes Art in Translation accessible to the broadest possible global audience, but also enables full-colour illustrations and the ability to provide links to related websites, video, and commentary.

Art in Translation enables new dialogues between languages and cultures and promotes new transcultural relationships.

Editor

Claudia Hopkins
Professor of Art History, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh

Co-Editors

Mira Xenia SchwerdaGetty
Postdoctoral Fellow, Edinburgh

Founding Editor

Iain Boyd Whyte
Honorary Professorial Fellow, ESALA (Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture)

Associate Editors

Richard Anderson
Professor of Architectural History and Theory, ESALA (Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture), University of Edinburgh, UK

 Zoë Strother
Riggio Professor of African Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York, USA

Editorial Board

Hala Auji
Hamad bin Khalifa Chair for Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University

Jens Baumgarten
Professor in History of Art, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil

Tom Cummins
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art, Harvard University, USA

Sarah E. Fraser
Professor of Chinese Art History, Head of Institute of East Asian Art History, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

Margit Kern
Professor in History of Art, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Filip Lipiński
Assistant Professor, History of Art, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland Halle O'Neal, Reader, History of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK

David Roxburgh
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University, USA

Ruth Simbao
Professor in History of Art and Visual Culture, Rhodes University, South Africa

Giovanna Targia
Researcher, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, Italy

Adedoyin Teriba
Assistant Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College, USA

Verónica Uribe
Associate Professor in Art History, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Lai Yu-chih
Associate Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taipei

Former board members:

Dario Gamboni
Université de Genève, Switzerland

Susanne Kuechler
University College London, UK

Vojtêch Lahoda
Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Nancy Micklewright
Smithsonian Institution, USA

Piotr Piotrowski
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Ruth B. Phillips
Carleton University, Canada

Editorial Manager

Kristina Keall
History of Art, University of Edinburgh

Interns

2022-2023:
Amy Lewis, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2017-2018:
Carolina Hayes Vidal, Msc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2016-2017:
Georgios Miliaras, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2015-2016:
Tamsin Prideaux, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2014-2015:
Marni Bayles, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2013-14:
Sehnaz Yilmaz, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2012-2013:
Lauren Ashby, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
Laura Juliana Osorio Iregui, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
Amandine Lizot
2011-2012:
Paula Niemeier, MSc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh
2010-2011:
Viktorija Kasperovica, Msc student in History of Art, University of Edinburgh

Advisory Board

Akira Akiyama
University of Tokyo, Japan

Claudia Bolgia
University of Edinburgh, UK

Olivier Bonfait
Université de Provence, France

Roberto Conduru
Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil

Wilfried van Damme
Leiden University, Netherlands

Barnaby Dicker
Germany

Igor Dukhan
Belarus University, Belarus

Lena Fritsch
Tate Modern, UK

Irina Genova
New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria

Gavin Grindon
Kingston University, UK

Daniela Hammer-Tugendthat
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria

Christopher Heuer
Princeton University, USA

Filip Lipinski
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Jeremy Howard
University of St. Andrews, UK

Christian Joschke
Université Lumière (Lyon 2), France

Zeynep Inankur
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey

Agata Jakubowska
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Lisa Le Feuvre
Henry Moore Institute, UK

Debbie Lewer
University of Glasgow, UK

Reina Lewis
University of the Arts, UK

Christina Lodder
University of St. Andrews, UK

Joseph Masheck
Edinburgh College of Art, UK and Hofstra University, USA

Rosalind McKever
University of Sussex, UK

Yuri Mitsuda
Shibuya Shoto Museum, Japan

Parul Dave Mukherji
School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Yuko Nakama
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

Natalia Murray
The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

Bernd Nicolai
University of Berne, Switzerland

Massimo Paolini
Independent Architecture Theorist, Barcelona, Spain

Peter Probst
Tufts University, USA

Matthew Rampley
University of Birmingham, UK

Jonathan Reynolds
Columbia University, USA

Mary Roberts
University of Sydney, Australia

Jeremy Roe
University of Nottingham, UK / Spain

Tania Orum
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

David Sánchez Cano
Madrid, Spain

Philippe Sénéchal
Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France

Hsueh-man Shen
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA

Gabriela Siracusano
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Maria Stavrinaki
Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Deborah Stein
University of California, Irvine, USA

Elena Versari
The University of North Florida, USA

Volker M. Welter
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Updated 16-11-2023