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CAA is pleased to announce the 2021 finalists for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and two Alfred H. Barr Jr. Awards. The winners of the three prizes, along with the recipients of other Awards for Distinction, will be announced in February 2021 and presented during Convocation in conjunction with CAA’s 109th Annual Conference, taking place on February 10-13, 2021.

2021 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award finalists  

Charles L. Davis II, Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019 

Emine Fetvaci, The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album-Making in Seventeenth-Century IstanbulPrinceton University Press, 2019 

Nicole R. Fleetwood, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass IncarcerationHarvard University Press, 2020 

John Warne Monroe, Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art, Cornell University Press, 2019 

Liza Oliver, Art, Trade, and Imperialism in Early Modern French India, Amsterdam University Press, 2019 

 

2021 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award finalists 

Katherine A. Bussard and Kristen GreshLife Magazine and the Power of Photography, Yale University Press, 2020 

Eleanor Jones Harvey, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture, Princeton University Press, 2020 

Stephen Little and Virginia Moon, ed., Beyond Line: The Art of Korean Writing, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books, 2019

Alisa LaGammaSahel:  Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020 

Louis Marchesano, ed.Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, PoliticsGetty Publications2020 

Catherine Jenkins, Nadine M. Orenstein, and Freyda SpiraThe Renaissance of Etching, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019 

                

2021 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions finalists 

Gean Moreno, Ettore Sottsass and The Social Factory, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and DelMonico Books, 2020

Adriano Pedrosa, José Esparza Chong Cuy, Julieta González, and Tomás ToledoLina Bo Bardi: HabitatMuseu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) and DelMonico Books, 2020 

Luca Guido, Angela Person, and Stephanie Pilated., Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture, University of Oklahoma Press, 2020 

Andrea RosenWood Gaylor and American Modernism, 1913-1936, Fleming Museum of Art, 2020 

Jinah Kim and Todd LewisDharma and Puya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal, Brill, 2019

Aprile Gallant, Floyd Cheung, and Margo MachidaDefiant Vision: Prints & Poetry by Munio Makuuchi, Smith College Museum of Art, 2019 

Susan Cookseyed. Peace, Power, and Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa, University Press of Florida, 2020 

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