Visual Theology

Dear colleagues!

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Visual Theology is dedicating the next issue (2024. Vol. 6. 1) to modern scientific strategies in iconographic research, discussion of their place and prospects in the history of art and visual exegesis. This field of research includes such epistemic concepts as intermediality, which allows to perceive works represented by a combination of text, images and music (as well as other forms of expression) as a single hypertext; intertextuality, which allows to describe a network of allusions, quotations and possible developments of the theme and parts of the text, linking one composition with another; intervisuality, in which  light the audience perceives images as working within different value systems. These approaches play an important role in iconographic and visual studies. A necessary aspect of their discussion is the topic of patronage of works, the identity of the customer, based on the social history of art. It would be valuable to pay attention to the problems of visual-semiotic parameters of religious practices of imaginary visualization of religious texts (the so-called rhetography) and discuss the prospects of implied iconography, which works with the “implied” but missing images. The scientific editor of the issue is Mikhail Rogov, Associate Professor, Candidate of Art History, Candidate of Economic Sciences, the scientific director of the Center for Iconographic and Visual Studies (CIVIS) of the Foundation for the Promotion of Education, Science and Art “New Art Studies”.

The volume of the text submitted for publication should be from 20,000 to 40,000 characters (with spaces).

The deadline for accepting materials prepared in accordance with the rules of the Journal is April 1, 2024.