Meclander is a press focused on modern and contemporary visual culture.

Alongside innovative scholarship spanning nineteenth and twentieth century art, our articles, interviews, and books approach emerging practices and cultural politics with an expansive, historically-minded perspective. We are broadly concerned with visual art, performance, music, film, mass culture, as well as historiographic and theoretical writing that challenges disciplinary conventions.

The press maintains two publishing avenues. The first is an eponymous journal that gathers together established and emerging scholarly voices grappling with revolutionary cultural practices of years past and synthesizing those that animate the present. The journal is not peer-reviewed to allow for more spontaneous, engaged material. To be in touch about the journal, please email journal@meclander.org.


Meclander Books is more squarely focused on young artists. Aiming to bring analytical language to such practices, in these volumes we ask scholars to situate emerging practices historically and theoretically for the first time. In place of reviews and other types of short-form writing, these books offer writers a chance to engage with the artwork and critical questions that define their own moment in a serious, rigorous manner. To be in touch about Meclander Books, please email books@meclander.org.

The press maintains two publishing avenues. The first is an eponymous journal that gathers together established and emerging scholarly voices grappling with revolutionary cultural practices of years past and synthesizing those that animate the present. The journal is not peer-reviewed to allow for more spontaneous, engaged material. To be in touch about the journal, please email journal@meclander.org.


Meclander Books is more squarely focused on young artists. Aiming to bring analytical language to such practices, in these volumes we ask scholars to situate emerging practices historically and theoretically for the first time. In place of reviews and other types of short-form writing, these books offer writers a chance to engage with the artwork and critical questions that define their own moment in a serious, rigorous manner. To be in touch about Meclander Books, please email books@meclander.org.

Founded in Berkeley, CA, Meclander welcomes writing about local and global artistic contexts. To be in touch with our editors, please email blake@meclander.org.

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© 2026 Meclander, All Rights Reserved. Website designed by James Blue.