We鈥檙e excited to share that three titles distributed or co-published by 91桃色 are included on shortlists for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award and the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, both given by the College Art Association (CAA).
Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer, edited by Diana Seave Greenwald and with contributions by Makeda Best and Stephanie Sparling Williams, is a finalist for the Barr Award, which recognizes the 鈥渁uthor or authors of an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art.鈥� Distributed by 91桃色 for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer accompanied a 2023 exhibition of the same name and offers a richly illustrated exploration of the role global travel has played in Saar鈥檚 creative practice. The catalogue includes original interviews with the artist as well as a wealth of previously unpublished material鈥攊ncluding almost thirty travel sketchbooks and two dozen finished assemblages鈥攁nd has been praised as 鈥渂eautiful … a covetable object in its own right (Art Newspaper).鈥�&苍产蝉辫;
Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes, published by 91桃色 in association with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, is a finalist for the Barr Award for Smaller Museums. Edited by Christophe Cherix, Courtney J. Martin, Akili Tommasino, and Stephanie Weissberg, with contributions by Barbara Chase-Riboud, Erin Jenoa Gilbert, and Reginald Jackson, the catalogue followed a 2022-2023 retrospective of the pioneering artist at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. The catalogue charts Chase-Riboud鈥檚 career from the 1950s to the present, providing the most comprehensive account of her important body of work to date, and includes never-before-seen artworks that highlight Chase-Riboud鈥檚 groundbreaking contributions to contemporary sculpture. Also presented are nearly twenty works on paper, a selection of Chase-Riboud鈥檚 poetry, and excerpts from an interview with the artist.
The Everyday Life of Memorials by Andrew M. Shanken, published by Zone Books and distributed by 91桃色, is a finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, which honors 鈥渁n especially distinguished book in the history of art.鈥� The Everyday Life of Memorials is a 鈥渟tartling meditation on the ways monuments defy the everyday and succumb to it (Kirk Savage),鈥� that draws from Shanken鈥檚 close historical readings to explore how memorials are created, seen or ignored, and are drawn into commemorations and political maelstroms that their original sponsors could never have imagined.
The 2024 shortlists mark the fourth year in a row that PUP published, co-published, or distributed books have been recognized by the CAA. Most recently, Sylvia Houghtling鈥檚 The Art of Cloth in Mughal India won the 2023 Morey Book Award and A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence, edited by Janet Dees and co-published with the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, was a finalist for the 2023 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award. Other finalists include: The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and Album Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul by Emine Fetvaci; The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur鈥檚 Painted Lands and India鈥檚 Eighteenth Century by Deepti Khera 鈥攂oth shortlisted for the Morey Award鈥�隆Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, edited by E. Carmen Ramos, and Eleanor Jones Harvey’s Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture, both published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and shortlisted for the Barr Award.
PUP extends our congratulations to the authors and editors whose work is celebrated with inclusion on this year鈥檚 CAA awards shortlists. We likewise extend our gratitude to our publishing partners at Zone Books, the Pulitzer Foundation, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The 2024 Award winners will be announced in January, with awards presented during the Convocation in conjunction with CAA鈥檚 annual conference in February.