《当代美术家》杂志是四川美术学院学报、创刊于1984年，是一本兼具学术性、文献性、前沿性的专业艺术期刊。
杂志依托四川美术学院丰厚的学术资源，一方面，是学院师生优秀教学、创作、科研成果的宣传和展示平台，敏锐地反映了中国当代艺术教育的现状和最新改革动态；另一方面，杂志植根本土文化，西南地区当代艺术发展的特色优势赋予了杂志鲜明的地方性与稀缺性；第三，杂志紧跟时代步伐，紧抓国家发展战略与学科内热点话题，聚焦具有研究价值的基础理论与艺术实践；第四，杂志具备国际化和全球化视野、引进最前沿的西方文艺理论并涵盖有影响力的国际艺术思潮，同时将中国当代艺术成果输出，通过重点内容中英双语的形式，构建多层次的学术对话，传递中国声音、讲好中国故事；第五，杂志积极筹备数字化和全媒体化转型，为中国艺术类专业期刊的出版和传播探索新路径。
在“艺术为了人民”思想的指导下，杂志始终将社会效益放在首位，注重艺术反哺社会、服务人民的使命与任务。
Founded in 1984, Contemporary Artists is the Academic Journal of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and a professional, academic and documentary art journal.
For one thing, supported by Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, the journal functions as a promotional and demonstration platform for the teaching, creation and research achievements made the university teachers and students. For another thing, rooted in the local culture, it is endowed with vivid localization and scarcity by the distinctive advantages of the contemporary art development in the southwest region. Thirdly, it focuses on the national development strategy and heated topics within the discipline, fundamental theory and artistic practice with research value, to keep pace with the times. Fourthly, with an international and globalized vision, it introduces the most cutting-edge western literary and artistic theories and internationally influential artistic trends, while exporting the achievements of Chinese contemporary art and building multi-level academic dialogues by presenting the key content in Chinese and English to tell good China stories. Fifthly, it is actively preparing for the digitalization and transformation in the omni-media era and exploring a new path for the publication and dissemination of professional art journals of China.
Under the guidance of “Art for the People", the journal has always prioritized social benefits and concentrated on the mission and task of feeding the society and serving the people with art.
