The new issue of the journal Art Studies Quarterly was presented at the Golden Rhyton 2025 festival in Plovdiv

The new issue of the journal Art Studies Quarterly was presented in Hall 2019 at the City Art Gallery in Plovdiv. The event is part of the accompanying programme of this year’s edition of the festival for Bulgarian animated and documentary cinema Golden Rhyton in the town.
With this issue, we are approaching good academic standards – nearly half of the proposals made were rejected simply because they either do not correspond precisely to the topic or the way they are made does not meet the standards of the journal we publish and therefore cannot find a place in it, said the editor-in-chief Prof. Alexander Donev at the presentation of Art Studies Quarterly. According to him, young authors are much more adaptable to new conditions, which is why they are more present in this issue.  He stressed that the point of view of young scientists and their fresh look at art is very important. Prof. Donev added that interdisciplinarity, the focus of this issue, has been his idea from the very beginning for the journal's content.
“I call this issue the ‘youth issue of Art Studies Quarterly’ because most authors are doctoral and postdoctoral students. And I am glad that we had the opportunity to publish these texts, that so many young colleagues responded, and that, from many of them, we have yet to read texts and research in the future. I believe in this,” said Assoc. Prof. Deyan Statulov, PhD, at the event. He added that these are extremely serious texts at a high scientific level.
The focal point of the new issue of the journal “Art Studies Quarterly” (4/2025) is Contemporary Receptions in Art: Image, Text, and Context. The field of scientific interest includes the theory and history of imagery, the power of images in modern life, and visual narrative and compositions. The process of influencing the audience in terms of the reception of art in an environment of cultural turbulence can be traced.
The scientific topics of young and established scholars include modern editing techniques in cinema and television, the transformations of documentary evidence in the digital age, the identity crisis in the era of artificial intelligence, and the role of text as a visual and conceptual element in contemporary art.

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