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Use when targeting October or deciding whether a modern/contemporary art, criticism, or theory manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit as the MIT Press venue for contemporary art, high theory, and the legacy of the avant-garde, the argument and critical bar, primary-source command, citation/house style, image-rights expectations, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
When to use
- modern/contemporary art, film, media, or theory manuscript fit check
- re-framing studies of recent or avant-garde practice
- choosing between October and generalist or period-specialist art-history journals
- criticism and theory of contemporary and modern art
- historical avant-garde and neo-avant-garde afterlives
- film, photography, video, and new-media art through rigorous critical theory
- theoretical essays developing or contesting a concept
- translations and critical recoveries of significant theoretical texts
When not to use
- generalist all-periods art-history article
- descriptive monographic study
- review-style survey with no theoretical edge
- theory name-dropped or used as a label rather than developed and tested
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