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Art Bulletin Art Bulletin is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal published by the College Art Association that focuses on the history of visual arts from antiquity to the present. It serves as a forum for scholarship on artists, movements, monuments, and institutions such as Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Albrecht Dürer, Sandro Botticelli, Rembrandt van Rijn, Édouard Manet, and Gustav Klimt. The journal engages with case studies on collections and sites like the Louvre, British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Uffizi, and Prado Museum, and with archival materials from repositories such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Vatican Library, and Smithsonian Institution.

History

Founded in the early 20th century, the journal emerged amid institutional developments at the College Art Association and professionalization trends influenced by figures associated with the American Academy in Rome and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Early editorial leadership included scholars connected to the University of Chicago, Columbia University, New York University, and Harvard University, producing research on subjects from Giotto di Bondone to Antoine Watteau. Over decades the journal documented shifts prompted by exhibitions at the World's Columbian Exposition and intellectual movements responding to events such as World War I, World War II, and the postwar expansion of university programs exemplified by initiatives at the Guggenheim Museum. Editorial changes paralleled methodological turnarounds following conferences at institutions like Smith College and the Courtauld Institute of Art.

The journal publishes long-form research articles, historiographical essays, critical reviews, and exhibition-focused studies addressing topics from Romanesque architecture and Byzantine mosaics to Renaissance painting, Baroque sculpture, Impressionism, Modernism, and Contemporary art. Coverage includes monographic treatments of artists such as Jan van Eyck, Caravaggio, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Yayoi Kusama, and Georgia O'Keeffe; institutional histories of the Tate Britain, National Gallery of Art (United States), and Museo Nacional del Prado; methodological debates engaging scholars from Yale University, University of Oxford, Princeton University, and University of California, Berkeley; and archival research using collections at the Getty Research Institute, Morgan Library & Museum, and Biblioteca Ambrosiana. The editorial remit often intersects with curatorial practice related to exhibitions at venues like the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery (London), and Centre Pompidou.

Produced on a quarterly schedule, the journal is distributed through the College Art Association membership, university libraries, and commercial subscription services associated with institutions such as the Johns Hopkins University Press and aggregators serving the Artstor and university consortia. Back issues and indexes are cataloged in library systems including the Library of Congress, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and cited in bibliographies maintained by programs at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Institute of Fine Arts (New York University), and the Warburg Institute. Special issues have been acquired by museum libraries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fogg Museum.

The journal has been influential in shaping scholarly debates about artists and movements, cited in monographs on Titian, Diego Velázquez, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Kazimir Malevich, and Wassily Kandinsky. It has fostered methodological dialogues involving proponents from the Annales School, advocates associated with New Art History, and scholars engaging with approaches developed at the School of Athens (disambiguation)-linked centers. Reviews in other venues such as the New York Times arts pages and periodicals at the Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian have referenced its essays when discussing exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Contributors have included historians and critics affiliated with Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, such as scholars who have written on Giorgio Vasari, Albrecht Altdorfer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Édouard Manet, Barbara Kruger, and Anish Kapoor. Special themed issues have addressed topics including conservation debates prompted by projects at the Notre-Dame de Paris, provenance research linked to cases involving collections and restitution tied to the Nazi era, and cross-cultural encounters exemplified by exhibitions of Japanese ukiyo-e and the circulation of objects between the Dutch East India Company and ports like Amsterdam and Lisbon. Symposia and anniversary issues have coordinated with events at the Getty Center, Smithsonian Institution, and the Venice Biennale.

Category:Art history journals Category:Publications established in 1913