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The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce that the ASA Board of Trustees has voted to appoint Jonathan Gilmore and Sandra Shapshay, both on the faculty of the City University of New York, the new co-editors of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (JAAC). Their five-year term runs from 2023-2027, and they will be eligible for re-appointment.

Oxford University Press is the new publisher of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism as of January 1, 2021. We will continue our practice of quarterly publication.
Our new journal homepage at OUP: https://academic.oup.com/jaac

Members of the Society have access to newly published material, as well as to all material published in the Journal, dating back to our initial publication in 1941.

Regular readers of the Journal will be pleased to learn that our new partnership will result in the availability of online preprints of articles accepted for publication. Preprints will be posted on the Oxford website immediately following the review and approval of page proofs.

Our change of publisher has also been an opportunity to redesign the look of the Journal, both inside and out. There is no change in the process or the online address currently in use for submitting material to the Journal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaac

Effective January 1, 2021, all requests for permissions for any material published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism should be directed to Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/access_purchase/rights_and_permissions

Established in 1942 by the American Society for Aesthetics, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism publishes current research articles, symposia, special issues, and timely reviews of books in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. The philosophy of art includes scholarship examining the nature, meaning and value of the arts, considered generally or individually, where the arts are taken in the broadest possible sense. Aesthetics includes work on aesthetic experiences and values wherever they are found both in and beyond the arts.

The Journal takes a theoretical and interdisciplinary approach to the arts and aesthetic matters, including scholarship and practice in the fields of philosophy, English literature, comparative literature, art, music, theater and drama, art history, psychology, law, and related disciplines. The Journal welcomes philosophically-informed interdisciplinary research and exploration of non-traditional aesthetic issues. While the Journal does not publish criticism, it invites scholarly work on the purpose, value, and function of criticism throughout the arts as well as pieces that explore the philosophical or theoretical implications of individual artworks. The Journal does not publish manuscripts that consist mainly of commentary on articles published elsewhere, nor do we publish articles that are primarily expository. Normally, historical studies should concern issues of continuing philosophical or theoretical interest. We welcome short discussion pieces responding to articles published in the Journal.

The John Fisher Memorial Prize

The Journal also sponsors the bi-annual John Fisher Memorial Prize in Aesthetics in honor of John Fisher, editor of the Journal from 1973-1988. The Prize is offered to foster the development of new voices and talent in the field of aesthetics. The winner of the 2021 Prize is Claire Anscomb, for her paper entitled "Creative Agency as Executive Agency: Grounding the Artistic Significance of Automatic Images," which she presented at the 79th Annual Meeting.
Guidelines for the Fisher prize are here

Editorial Board and Staff

Editors: Jonathan Gilmore, CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College
Sandra Shapshay, CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College

Book Review Editor: Jonathan Neufeld, College of Charleston

Paloma Atencia-Linares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
David Davies, McGill University
A.W. Eaton, University of Illinois-Chicago
Paul Guyer, Brown University
Garry Hagberg, Bard College
James Harold, Mount Holyoke College
Kathleen Higgins, University of Texas at Austin
Sherri Irvin, University of Oklahoma
Derek Matravers, The Open University
Dominic McIver Lopes, University of British Columbia
Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University
Rachel Zuckert, Northwestern University

Charitable Contributions

The ASA is organized under the laws of Ohio as a nonprofit corporation. It has been ruled a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization by the United States Treasury Department, as an organization operated exclusively for educational purpose. Contributions, gifts, and bequests to the Society are deductible from Federal income tax returns, to the maximum extent allowed by law.

Donating Back Issues

Do you have a run of JAAC issues that you no longer need and would like to put to good use? From time to time the JAAC receives requests from individuals or institutions for back issues that are no longer available. If you'd like to contribute your JAAC back issues for such purposes, please contact the Secretary-Treasurer. We appreciate your consideration.