The “Bulletin of Art History” quarterly is the oldest Polish academic periodical dedicated to art history. Established in 1932 as a periodical of the Department of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, following WW II it was published by the State Institute of Art (later: Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, IS PAN). Representing varied methodological approaches, the articles published in the journal refer to the essential issues from the history of Polish and foreign art, spanning the period from the Middle Ages to today. The quarterly publishes reviews of important exhibitions and publications, speaks of academic conferences, and commemorates distinguished art historians. The papers are published in Polish as well as in English. The papers in Polish are accompanied by extensive summaries in English. All the papers undergo a double-blind review process. According to the List of Scored Journals of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the publication in “Bulletin of Art History” earns 100 points. All the texts are available for free downloading with the Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence. The original (reference) version is a print journal (ISSN: 0006-3967).
Kwartalnik Filmowy [Film Quarterly] is a quarterly academic journal published by the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk – ISPAN). It is one of the most highly valued Polish periodicals concerning film and culture. The scope of its interest embraces history and theory of film, audiovisual arts and media. Its aim is to present the most important phenomena and trends in contemporary film and media studies and also to broaden the knowledge about interdisciplinary and intercultural aspects of film art with emphasis on Polish context. The journal is addressed to academics, students of the humanities, especially in film studies, and cinephiles. Usually it is published in the form of monographic volumes devoted to a particular problem or eminent filmmakers. We accept articles in Polish and English. The articles are peer reviewed in a double-blinded mode. We publish four volumes a year – both in paper and electronic version. According to the List of Scored Journals of The Ministry of Education and Science of Poland the publication in Kwartalnik Filmowy earns 100 points.
All articles are published in open access under the CC BY 4.0 licence. In issues from 105-106 (2019) to 119 (2022) all articles were published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.
The original (reference) version of the journal is printed one (ISSN: 0452-9502).
The quarterly “Muzyka” has been published continuously since 1956 and remains the leading musicology journal in Poland. It publishes texts dealing with music history from the Middle Ages to contemporary times, as well as ethnomusicology and systematic musicology. The main focus of the issues addressed is the Polish musical tradition, as most broadly understood, as well as the culture of the countries of Central Europe. The articles are published in Polish or English and are double-blind peer reviewed.
The original version of the journal appears in print. There is no fee to publish and all texts are available in open access under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license. (Issues from 2018/1 to 2022/3 are available on CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.)
Pamiętnik Teatralny [Theatrical Memoir] is a peer-reviewed, bilingual Polish-English academic journal focusing on the history and historiography of theater, drama, and performance. The quarterly covers mainly topics related to the broadly understood theatrical culture (especially in Poland), inviting other contexts of theater and drama studies and interdisciplinary approaches as well. Among the methodologically diverse articles we publish, the contributions based on archival documents or annotated critical editions hold a special place. Pamiętnik Teatralny also publishes essay-clusters focused on a special topic and essay-length book reviews. We welcome proposals from scholars of diverse academic and cultural backgroud, both experienced and those at the beginning of their academic careers. To ensure greater diversity, inclusivity, and equity in academic debate, we do not charge authors any fees. All texts are initially qualified by the editorial board; original research articles and review articles are subsequently double-blind peer-reviewed. Pamiętnik Teatralny is indexed in many databases (Scopus, DOAJ, Sherpa Romeo etc.), and according to the Polish MEiN list the article published in the journal is awarded 100 points.
All articles are available in open access without delay on CC BY 4.0 license. (Issues from 1/2018 to 3/2022 are available on CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license) Since 2020 the online version of issue is the original one (ISSN: 2658-2899). All the issues appear in print form as well (ISSN: 0031-0522).
Since 1947 "Konteksty" magazine has appeared regularly as a quarterly sponsored by the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Konteksty is an interdisciplinary publication, embracing different areas from folklore, avant-garde art, aesthetics and anthropology to drama, the plastic arts and mass culture.
"Konteksty" also presents the achievements of minority cultures - we have published special issues devoted to the Jews, Gypsies and Lemkos as well as a special issue on Lithuania. Our magazine is addressed to culture anthropologists, humanists, students - and anyone else interested in humanism. A specialist magazine, it is nevertheless accessible to the broad public and should be of particular interest to all who wish to deepen their knowledge about culture and its mechanisms. Our aim is to outline the leading contemporary humanistic trends, the many facets of today's culture as well as the origins and traditions of well-known contemporary social phenomena. In our work we also translate foreign-language texts.
"Konteksty" is published in editions of 700 copies and can be found in major libraries in Poland and abroad. Several special editions of the journal have been sponsored by the Culture Ministry, the Stefan Batory Foundation (Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego) and the Culture Foundation (Fundacja Kultury). Konteksty received extremely favourable reviews, among others in Res Publica, Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita, Tygodnik Powszechny, Literatura Ludowa and Życie.
Among our contributors are the most eminent Polish and foreign humanists, including professors Frank Ankersmith, James Clifford, Clifford Geertz, Juri Lotman, Marylin Strathern, Maria Janion, Wiesław Juszczak, Zbigniew Raszewski, Teresa Grzybkowska and Zygmunt Kubiak.
Our monographs concerned topics like ecology, mass culture, symbolic culture, holiday traditions, eschatology, psychopathic art, the anthropology of drama, film and photography, relations between nature and culture, the anthropology of literature, anthropology vs. history and Polish regional cultures.
In 1997 we began a regular column devoted to the diaries of Bronisław Malinowski (written during his research in the Trobriands and earlier) and features on the Polish-British anthropologist's life and work. This was crowned by the Malinowski - Witkacy. Photography: Between Science and Art exhibition (of which we were the main organizer) and a quadruple bilingual edition of our magazine containing texts on the anthropologist Malinowski and the artist, playwright, photographer and philosopher Witkiewicz (Witkacy). Both were important representatives of 20th-Century science and art and, for a time, the closest of friends. This confrontation between a scholar and an artist active in the first half of our century was also an attempt to seek new paths of cognition on the threshold of the 21st Century, a century in which science and art will not be treated separately but as complementary methods of gaining knowledge about humanity and reality.
ISSN: 1230–6142 (Print), 2956-9214 (Online)
Since 2023 selected texts from "Konteksty" are available in open access (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International).
Entire issues of our magazine can also be reached at the Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL).
Publishers: Institute of Art, Polish Acedemy of Sciences / LIBER PRO ARTE. Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
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