About the Journal

Miradas is appearing annually as an academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal intended to serve as a platform for topics relating to the art history of the Américas and the Iberian peninsular, together with promoting scholarly exchange between German-speaking, Hispanic and Lusitanian historians of art and culture. It is deliberately adopting a multilingual format (German, English, Spanish, Portuguese), in order to, on the one hand, endorse the various traditions of scholarship and, on the other, to enable mutual reception of them.

Miradas (engl. sightings/perspectives) is inviting scholars to focus on the history of art and culture from the Iberian peninsula and the Américas, to view these from differing perspectives and to place them in their proper contexts. We particularly welcome articles dealing with transcultural aspects of the regions which are globally entangled in both their history and their present day. In this sense, Miradas also seeks to promote discussion on current theoretical propositions from postcolonial and decolonial studies as they specifically relate to the art of the regions of the Iberian peninsula and the Américas. The journal’s various sections will permit contributors to present and discuss new material, as well as to revisit established knowledge.

Not the least of Miradas’ aims is to increase the visibility of Iberian and Ibero-American art-history at the University of Heidelberg’s Institute of European Art History (IEK), which has launched the publication with editorial collaboration by art historians from Mexico, Spain and Portugal.