First Open-Access Issue of Getty Research Journal Now Available
Peer-reviewed articles explore artworks from Iran, Iraq, France, Germany, and Brazil.
Getty is pleased to announce that the spring 2024 issue of the Getty Research Journal, an open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal on the visual arts, is now available. Published by the Getty Research Institute (GRI) since 2009, the Getty Research Journal has presented articles covering the visual arts of all cultures, regions, and time periods. Topics featured in the journal relate to Getty collections, initiatives, and broad research interests. The journal welcomes a diversity of perspectives and methodological approaches, and seeks to include work that expands narratives on global culture.
Previously available via subscription, the conversion to an open-access journal reflects Getty’s ongoing commitment to open content. The texts are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (CC BY-NC) license, allowing for far-reaching access, collaboration, and impact. With the transition to open access, the Getty Research Journal is now produced and published using Getty’s open-source Quire software and is freely available in web, PDF, and e-book formats.
The new issue, number 19, features essays on a fragmentary Kufic Qur'an of Early Abbasid style produced in Central Iran; cuttings from a 12th-century Bible written in southeastern France for a Carthusian monastery in the orbit of the Grande Chartreuse; a large folding panorama of the Brazilian city of Salvador in the state of Bahia, taken around 1880 by German photographer Rodolpho Lindemann; French traveler Jane Dieulafoy’s 19th-century photographic documentation of Ilkhanid monuments, including the Emamzadeh Yahya, one of Iran’s most plundered tombs; the wartime encounter between Polish painters stationed in Baghdad and Iraqi artists during the British military reoccupation of Iraq in 1941–45; and the integration of photography and poetry in East German samizdat artists’ books of the 1980s.
Doris Chon, Executive Editor of the Getty Research Journal, notes, “The articles featured in this inaugural open-access issue address a dynamic range of cultural production that spans four continents and eleven centuries. With this decisive transition to a freely available digital publication, the journal upholds its mission to deliver original scholarship on global visual art to the broadest possible readership.”
All past issues are available via subscription from Project MUSE while an evaluation is underway to determine the feasibility of making them freely available.
Those wishing to submit articles to the Getty Research Journal for consideration may find more information on the journal’s website. Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal’s submission portal on Scholastica.
To read the new issue, visit getty.edu.
