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The most recent issue, Volume 4, Number 5, of The International Journal of the Arts in Society includes:

• The Venetian Heritage of Dalmatia (Or the “Balkan” Heritage of Venice?) by Thomas E. Schweigert.
• Symphony Audience Development: Analysis of Organizational Culture in the Performing Arts by Erin E. Carey.
• The Influence of European Arts on Bagh-e-Golestan: The Qajarid Garden by Sedigheh Golshan.
• Fifty Years On the Road: Images of the Car in Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’ by Jonathan Peter Day.
• Post-pastoral Ceramics: A Distinctive Ecological Language by Julia Jones.
• South African Cinema in a Global Marketplace by Damon Jon Heatlie.

Recently published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society include:

• The Violence of the Unsaid in Van Sant’s Elephant and Paranoid Park: The Active Role of the Viewer in Creating Narrative Meanings by Ana Paula Barroso.
• Japanese Fireworks (Hanabi): The Ephemeral Nature and Symbolism by Damien Liu-Brennan and Mio Bryce.
• Writing ‘whiteness’: Representing the Afrikaner in post-apartheid South Africa – a comparative study of Athol Fugard’s “Sorrows and Rejoicings” (2002) and Jason Xenopolous’ “Promised Land” (2002) by Tamar Meskin and Tanya van der Walt.
• The Cult of the New and the Work of Critique by Angeliki Spiropoulou.
• Water Over Skin: A Post-colonial Analysis of Cultural Identity - Overcoming a Sense of Shame by Daphne Cazalet.
• Transforming Hamilton, Creatively: Changing a City from a Cowtown to a Wowtown by Cheryl Reynolds.

The fifth issue of Volume 4 of The International Journal of the Arts in Society is available.

Some of the papers included in Volume 4, Number 5:

• Making Sense of the Absurdity of Life in Camus’s the Myth of Sisyphus by Ashkan Shobeiri, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya and Arbaayah Ali Termizi.
• Re-viewing Feminist Influences in Transnational Art: A Multimodal, Fugal Analysis of Mary Kelly’s Texts of ‘Maternal Desire’ by Ruth Skilbeck.
• Community and Community-based Art Making by Ronald Aman.
• Rhetoric and Service Learning in Addressing the Challenges of Diversity by Sarah O’Connor.
• Electric Cowboy Cacophony: A Project for Cross-genre Free Improvisation by Michael Edwards.
• The Museum of Desire: Cognition in Performance and Reception by Rick Kemp and Brian Jones.

The most recent issue, Volume 4, Number 4, of  The International Journal of the Arts in Society includes:

• Between Classicism and Surrealism: The Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice and the Canonization of the Avant-garde by Barbara Lekatsas.
• Plural Expressions of the Local Realities in an Interdinal City: Art Contemporary of Maracaibo by Elsy Zavarce and José Hernández.
• Challenging Hegemony, Zineb Sedira’s Mother Tongue by Michele Waugh.
• Travels and Borders in the Representation of the U.S.-Mexico Border: Cartographies in Alejandro González Iñárritu´s Film Babel by Victor Carreno.
• ‘T’ Turning Diverse Memories into Public Art: Community Consultation in the Public Art Process by Salvatore M. Di Mauro.
• Bar Candela: Contemporary Art on the Move, in Place and Discourse by Venke Aure, Kristin Bergaust and Oddrun Sæter.
• From Memories to Monuments: The Artist as Translator by Inga Burrows and Katja Krebs.

The fourth issue of Volume 4 of The International Journal of the Arts in Society is available.

Some of the papers included in Volume 4, Number 4:

• What the Arts have to Teach us about Political Leadership and Social Change: Ambivalence, Chaos, Bush, Obama and the Primal Paradox by John Briggs, Raymond Saner and Lichia Yiu.
• Encouraging Reflexive Practice: Alternative Ways of Embedding Personal & Professional Development Inside the University by Claire Nichols and David Garner.
• Art Commodities from Japan: Propagating Art and Culture via the Internet by Jean Ippolito.
• Revitalizing Formosa: The Promotion of Public Art in Taiwan by Chih-Hsiang Ko.
• Extending Young Children’s Artistic Enfranchisement Through Computer-based Music Technology by Janet McDowall.
• Identification of the Malay Vernacular Spatial Features within Malay Vernacular Houses by Amirhosein Ghaffarian Hoseini, Mohd Nasir Baharuddin and Rahinah Ibrahim.
• Madness in the Arts and the Art of Madness: The Transatlantic Research Network on Mental Health and the Arts (TRAMHA) by Gonzalo Araoz.

The third issue of Volume 4 of The International Journal of the Arts in Society has now been published.

Volume 4, Number 3 contains:

• Confronting (Inter) Subjectivities through Arts-based Research: A Socio-critical Perspective to a Community-based Art Educational Research Project by Mira Helena Kallio.
• Aesthetic Considerations in Community Dance: A Practitioner’s Perspective by Mary Fitzgerald.
• Lake Macquarie Pavilions: Connecting the Community with Artists, Places and Spaces by Paola Favaro.
• Resilience and the Creative Soul: A Look at an Extraordinary Process by Pamela Braverman Schmidt and Debra Sheets.
• Reflections on Graffiti by Luz del Carmen Vilchis Esquivel.
• Arts in the City and Global Changes: The Demographical Challenge by Daniele Ietri and Peter Karl Kresl.
• The Issue of the Representation of the ‘Margins’ in Contemporary Art Exhibitions: The Case of the Thessaloniki Biennale by Aikaterini Karavida.
• “Brincas of Évora” Rituals of Carnival and Performance in the South of Portugal: Rural and Traditional Festivities in the Contemporary World by Isabel Bezelga and Lucilia Valente.
• Leaving the Safety Zone: Trans-cultural Encounters in Arts Education by David Bell and Tracy Rohan.
• Stencilled Collective Memories in the Cityscapes of Buenos Aires and Rosario in Argentina by Emilse B. Hidalgo.

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The first issue of Volume 4 of The International Journal of the Arts in Society has now been published.

Volume 4, Number 1 contains:

• Making Sense of Art: The Relationship between Art Criticism and Theories of Visual Hermeneutics by Howard Riley.
• The Phenomenological Study of an Art Process by Duygu Beykal.
• Nationality in Art and the Case of Contemporary Turkish Painting by Birsen Limon, Neslihan Kiyar and Hüseyin Elmas.
• An Intercultural Aesthetic Dialogue: Creativity and Innovation Across Cultures by Donna Wright.
• Italian Cultural Patrimony and Memories of Revolution: Louise Stolberg’s Anti-Napoleonic Florentine Salon and Neoclassicism in the Work of Francois Xavier Fabre, Vittorio Alfieri and Germaine de Staël’s Corinne by Sharon Worley.
• En Pointe: The Politics of Imperial Russia and its Ballet by Krista Sigler.
• Aesthetic Identity, Well-Being, and the Right to Beauty by Per Bauhn.

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