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Finalists for the 2024 Morey and Barr Awards
posted by CAA — Nov 16, 2023
CAA is pleased to announce the 2024 finalists for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and the 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 January 2024 and presented during Convocation in conjunction with CAA’s 112th Annual Conference, February 14–17, 2024.
CHARLES RUFUS MOREY BOOK AWARD SHORTLIST, 2024
Delia Cosentino and Adriana Zavala, Resurrecting Tenochtitlan: Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City, University of Texas Press
Matthew Francis Rarey, Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic, Duke University Press
Tatiana Reinoza, Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory, University of Texas Press
Andrew M. Shanken, The Everyday Life of Memorials, Zone Books
Jennifer Van Horn, Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art during Slavery, Yale University Press
ALFRED H. BARR JR. AWARD SHORTLIST, 2024
Emily Braun and Elizabeth Cowling, eds., Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
James A. Doyle, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, and Joanne Pillsbury, eds., Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Diana Seave Greenwald, ed., Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer, Princeton University Press and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Leo G. Mazow, Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
David Pullins, and Vanessa K. Valdés, eds., Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ALFRED H. BARR JR. AWARD FOR SMALLER MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES, COLLECTIONS, AND EXHIBITIONS SHORTLIST, 2024
Christophe Cherix, Courtney J. Martin, Akili Tommasino, and Stephanie Weissberg, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes, Princeton University Press, Princeton, and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Elliot Bostwick Davis, Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape, Rizzoli Electa, New York, and The Cape Ann Museum, Boston
Apsara DiQuinzio, Jeff Gunderson, Alexander Nemerov, and Elaine Y. Yau, Adaline Kent: The Click of Authenticity, Rizzoli Electa New York and the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Perrin Lathrop, ed., African Modernism in America, Yale University Press, New Haven, and the American Federation of Arts