About the Journal

Scope

Todas as Artes is an international scientific journal published in digital format whose main objective is to publish works resulting from original research, theoretical development, or thematic reviews. Although it primarily seeks to publish texts focusing on the realities of Portuguese-speaking countries within the field of the sociology of culture and the arts, it is also open to contributions from other regions (especially those that present a comparative and analytical perspective) and from other areas of the social sciences and humanities. Todas as Artes is guided by principles of scientific quality and social relevance, aiming for each of its issues to contribute significantly to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge. 

It is published twice a year and accepts and publishes texts in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French by authors from various countries. All submissions undergo a rigorous selection and review process based on a demanding anonymous scientific peer review system (double-blind peer review).

Presentation

Inspired by José Saramago, we set out to establish the journal Todas as Artes as a matrix and space for knowledge, research, and the celebration of the arts from the perspective of sociology and cultural studies. The arts increasingly assert themselves as emblematic references of contemporaneity, reminding us that Kant, in his Aesthetics, already considered that the meanings of the arts depend upon the plural existence of human beings.

Thus, in the face of tensions engendered by singular economic crises, conflicts of cultural, ethnic, and religious nature, the limits of borders, and the recurrent diasporas that shape distances and proximities, it has been art that condenses and embraces the pluralities that Appadurai termed “imagined worlds.” It may therefore be affirmed that multiple contexts of crisis have fostered, worldwide, singular strategies of resistance and the formation of collectives that point toward the composition of original artistic and creative landscapes.

It is observed that the arts have also functioned as exemplary devices enabling emerging models of collaboration and partnership, allowing multiple platforms of creativity and stylistic diversity to circulate horizontally. Beyond the noise arising from political normativity, from the turmoil of crises and acts of terror, art has mobilized spaces of mutual creative contamination and, within conflictual contexts, has constituted new planes of language and a profusion of cultural and social signs under new codes. In short, art not only has a social nature but also produces social effects and generates discourses about the social.

This journal focuses on the presentation and discussion of works that investigate and disseminate all Lusophone arts within the framework of the social sciences, sociology, and cultural studies. Spaces, places, borders, actors, and themes of all the arts (music, performing arts, painting, architecture, sculpture, literature, poetry, cinema, photography, video, digital arts, installation, design, illustration, pixação, graffiti, programming, publishing, comics, among others) constitute its touchstone.

Open Access Policy

Todas as Artes is an open-access online journal: all its content is made immediately and permanently available free of charge to users or their institutions under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).

Periodicity

Todas as Artes is published on a semiannual basis.